Monteoru culture
The Monteoru culture is a Bronze Age culture and is one of the southeastern European cultures that follow the Cucuteni-Tripolje culture . The earliest Monteoru settlements are close to or above the LBK and Cucuteni settlements.
Around 3000 BC The Monteoru culture arose in the area of today's Romania from a fusion and further development of the Cucuteni-Tripolje culture , the Vinca , LBK and the unusually dynamic Boian culture . The spread of the Monteoru culture extended from the Moldau and northeast Muntenia to Transylvania and the Ukraine .
Research history
The name of the culture is derived from a site near Sărata-Monteoru, a village in central Romania. The first excavations took place in 1917. The origin of this culture is currently controversial despite numerous hypotheses.
Distribution area
Settlements
Material culture
A specialty of the metal tools of the Monteoru culture are the shaft hole axes with transverse ribs on the shaft.
Ceramics
Idols
chronology
literature
- Alexandrina D. Alexandrescu: Dépôts de l'âge du bronze tardif (= Inventaria Archaeologica. Roumanie. Fasc. 2, R 15-16). Éditions de l'Académie de la République Socialiste de Roumanie, Bucarest 1966.
- Ioannis Aslanis: Kastanas. Excavations in a settlement mound from the Bronze and Iron Ages of Macedonia 1975–1979. The Early Bronze Age finds and findings (= Prehistoric Archeology in Southeastern Europe. PAS. Vol. 4). Wirtschaftsverlag Spiess, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-89166-024-3 .
- Nona Pălincaş: Power and Women in the Later Period of the Monteoru Culture (Curvature Subcarpathians between ca.1700 and 1500 BC). In: Transylvanian Review. Vol. 19, Supplement No. 5, 1, 2010, ISSN 2067-1016 , pp. 295-317, digitized version (PDF; 645 kB) .
- Cristian Schuster: Extensions to the fortified Bronze Age settlements on the Lower Danube (southern Romania). In: Studii de preistorie. No. 4, 2007, ISSN 2065-2534 , pp. 179-187, online (PDF; 829 kB) .
- Ion Motzoi-Chicideanu: Some regards concerning the Monteoru culture. In: European Archeology-online. April 2003, online
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hermann Müller-Karpe: Handbook of Prehistory. Volume 4: Bronze Age. Part 1. Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-07941-5 , p. 178.
- ↑ Nona Pălincaş: Power and Women in the Later Period of the Monteoru Culture. In: Transylvanian Review. Vol. 19, Supplement No. 5, 1, 2010, pp. 295-317, here p. 298.
- ↑ Ion Motzoi-Chicideanu: cateva observaţii asupra culturii Monteoru. In: European Archeology-online. April 2003, online (PDF; 344 kB) ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
