Many uncertainties and doubts often arise when students, researchers and professionals of
archaeology start the study of the huge amount of ceramic sherds collected in …

This article explores the relationship between the making of things and the making of people
at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. Focusing on potters and potting, we …

The principal aim of this work is to present a detailed analysis and interpretation of the
material culture and the social complexity of the Transdanubian Encrusted Pottery culture …

This article examines the choices potters made while collecting and preparing their raw
materials, forming, finishing and firing their pots in the Bronze Age villages of Kiszombor-Új …

Abstract The Carpathian Basin was a highly influential centre of metalworking in the 2nd mil.
BC. Nevertheless, despite the abundance of metal objects from the Late Bronze Age, the …

Békés 103, a primarily Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1280 calBC) cemetery and settlement
on the Great Hungarian Plain, has been investigated by the BAKOTA project since 2011 …

Determining the provenience of archaeological objects relies on the so-called “provenience
postulate,” namely, that sources of these objects are more compositionally distinct from each …

The Bell Beaker site near Brodek u Prostějova (Czechia) has yielded remains of a large
timber construction accompanied by four symmetrical ritual deposits with numerous …

Pottery-making practices have been approached by the use and application of the concept
of chaîne opératoire in different parts of the world. This concept has allowed researchers to …

The earliest written sources on the Middle Orinoco inhabitants singled-out the Átures Rapids
as a key trading centre between the 16th and 18th century and from before the Spanish …