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Updating Early/Middle Bronze Age in the southern Baranya

Area of the southern Baranja/Baranya between Drava and Danube rivers has been a natural passage to the Balkans from the north or from southern perspective – path from the southern Carpathian basin to the Middle Danubian region. Besides the existence of important communication routes, environment in this region is one of the most suitable for living in the Carpathian basin. Settlement density in the Early/Middle Bronze Age (according Central European chronology Br A2/B1-2, Bona's Middle Bronze Age 2-3) demonstrate that this part of the Carpathian basin was an area of encountering different communities who had lived along the Danube and its hinterland. Those communities had clearly different identities which can be recognize in pottery styles and mortuary practices. This paper will discuss the obviously existing distinguishes between Encrusted Pottery, Vatya and Vatina/Belegiš I communities in the wider framework. The Institute of Archaeology has excavated several sites in 2014 and 2015 which changed previously knowledge about settlement infrastructure and mortuary practices at the end of Early and the beginning of Middle Bronze Age. Explored area of contemporary EBA settlement and cemetery in Beli Manastir-Širine and excavated area of fortified MBA settlement in Jagodnjak-Napuštene njive give possibilities in updating several Early/Middle Bronze Age topics in Baranja/Baranya and in wider area: settlement infrastructure, pottery production, relationship to contemporary cemeteries, mortuary practices, contacts with neighbours… In the Bronze Age, the area of Baranja/Baranya was region where communities with different identities lived and shared area and benefits of this fertile part in the heart of the Carpathian basin.

Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Baranya, settlements, cemeteries, Encrusted pottery, Belegiš I culture, cremation

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