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Long distance exchange in the Central European Neolithic: Hungary to the Baltic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny ,
Jacek Kabaciński  and
Thomas Terberger
Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland (Email: [email protected])
Jacek Kabaciński
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, Rubież 46, 61-612 Poznań, Poland (Email: [email protected])
Thomas Terberger
Affiliation:
University of Greifswald, Hans-Fallada-Straße 1, 17489 Greifswald, Germany (Email: [email protected])
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As Mesolithic people living on the Baltic coast began to adopt farming in the later fifth millennium BC, imports of a new type and quality started to reach them from the south — highly decorated pots and then copper axes from the Hungary-Serbia area. With new excavations at the site of Dąbki 9 in northern Poland, the authors are able to show how high quality thin-walled shiny black vessels are travelling over 1000km in the early fourth millennium BC, bringing prestige cups and jugs to the Baltic shore.

Keywords

BalticPolandPomeraniaHungaryTisza valleyCarpathiansMesolithicNeolithicCopper AgeimportsBodrogkeresztúr cultureFunnel Beaker culture
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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 327 , March 2011 , pp. 43 - 58
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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