Published: 2023-12-31

Baltic Amber in Hungarian Bronze Age. New data and current stage of research

Mateusz Jaeger , Gabriella Kulcsár , Eszter Melis , Mateusz Stróżyk , Paweł Piszora , Marietta Csányi , Réka Csuvár-Andrási , Klára P. Fischl , Szilvia Guba , Evelin Pap , Emília Pásztor , Róbert Patay , Ildikó Szathmári , Gábor Szilas , Agnė Čivilytė , Viktoria Kiss
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/75.2023.2.3500

Abstract

Amber was one of the key raw materials distributed in Bronze Age Europe. One of its varieties – succinite – was
exchanged over a vast area stretching from its sources on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The chemical identification of Baltic amber significantly expands our knowledge of the dynamics and nature of the relationships connecting different regions of Europe in the first half of the second millennium BC. One of the most significant cultural-geographical areas reached by this amber was the Carpathian Basin. This text presents a summary of the current state of knowledge about the context, chronology, and the extent of amber occurrence in the Hungarian Bronze Age. At the same time, it supplements the catalogue of finds with artefacts acquired in recent years, providing new information regarding radiocarbon dating and spectral analysis of selected amber artifacts.

Keywords:

Bronze Age, Carpathian Basin, Amber, spectral analysis, absolute chronology

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Jaeger, M., Kulcsár, G., Melis, E., Stróżyk, M., Piszora, P., Csányi , M., Csuvár-Andrási, R., Fischl, K. P., Guba, S., Pap, E., Pásztor , E., Patay, R., Szathmári , I., Szilas, G., Čivilytė, A., & Kiss, V. (2023). Baltic Amber in Hungarian Bronze Age. New data and current stage of research. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 75(2), 137–186. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/75.2023.2.3500

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