„The frontiers of the Roman Empire, over 5000 km long, stretch from the Atlantic coast of Scotland, along the Rhine and the Danube, also enclose the Banat region and Transylvania, then going down along the Oriental Carpathians to the Black Sea; from the southern coast of the Black Sea they continue towards the Near East until the Red Sea; then, in North Africa, they line the edge of the Sahara desert until the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Over this entire area, visible traces of fortifications, roads and settlements are still preserved, but numerous monuments still lay hidden underneath the earth. Despite the fact that the Roman frontiers crossed regions with different relief and climate, they constitute a whole in that they were designed to protect Roman territories. The research of these monuments and the preservation policy regarding them was and is unequal in the various presentday states on whose territory traces of the Roman frontier are to be found. Consequently, in the ‘80s of the 20th century, the idea of globally protecting the Roman frontiers, viewed as a unitary monument, was met. In 1987, Hadrian’s Wall in United Kingdom was declared a UNESCO monument. It was followed in 2005 by the German-Raetian sector, on which occasion the UNESCO committee decided to set up the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ site. (...)
This project through its complexity generated an interdisciplinary approach of the proposed subject stimulating such future attempts in the archaeological research field. By using the latest technical methods of non-destructive investigation the project did not damage the stratigraphy of the archaeological site obtaining instead a high amount of data otherwise time consuming judging from the archaeological excavations perspective contributing also to the preservation of the cultural heritage.” - Introduction
CONTENTS
Vorwort
Ondřej CHVOJKA
Chronologie und Kulturen der südböhmischen Bronzezeit und ihre Parallelisierung zu den Donaugebieten und Karpatenbecken
Viktória KISS–Szilvia FÁBIÁN–Tamás HAJDU–Kitti KÖHLER–Gabriella KULCSÁR–István MAJOR–Géza SZABÓ
Contributions to the Relative and Absolute Chronology of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Western Hungary Based on Radiocarbon Dating of Human Bones
Marija LJUŠTINA–Katarina DMITROVIĆ
Core vs. Periphery: Some Stratigraphical and Chronological Remarks on the Vatin Culture in Banat and Western Serbia
Katarina DMITROVIĆ–Marija LJUŠTINA
Metal Finds as Indicators of Relations Between the Middle Bronze Age Cultures on Western and Northern Serbia
Florin GOGÂLTAN
The Early and Middle Bronze Age Chronology on the Eastern Frontier of the Carpathian Basin. Revisited after 15 Years
József PUSKÁS
Contact Zone: Middle Bronze Age Cultural Connections in the Valley of the Black River (Covasna County, Romania)
Neculai BOLOHAN–Alexandru GAFINCU–Iulian STOLERIU
Middle Bronze Age Chronology East of the Carpathian Area. A Bayesian Model
Horia CIUGUDEAN–Colin P. QUINN
The End of the Wietenberg Culture in the Light of new 14C Dates and its Chronological Relation Towards the Noua Culture
Rita E. NÉMETH
The Middle Bronze Age “Mass Grave” from Voivodeni–La Şcoală. A Chronological Approach
Tibor-Tamás DARÓCZI–Adrian URSUŢIU
Contextualising Decorations. A Study of Placement and Context of Ornaments on Bronze Age Ceramics from the Lower Feneş Valley
Gábor ILON
Zeitstellung der Urnenfelderkultur (1350/1300–750/700 BC) in West-Transdanubien. Ein Versuch mittels Typochronologie und Radiokarbondaten
Attila László
Über die Chronologie des kulturellen Wechsels zwischen der Noua-Coslogeni Kultur und der Nachfolger- Kulturen mit kannelierter und mit ritz- und stempelverzierter Keramik in den innen- und aussenkarpatischen Gebieten. Einige Lehren der Radiokarbondatierungen
János Gábor TARBAY
The Reanalysis of the Eponymous Hoard from Gyermely-Szomor and the HaA2 Period in the Territory of Hungary
Tiberius BADER
Zur Chronologie Der Lanzenspitzen im Karpaten-Donau-Raum
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