Mateusz Jaeger Knihy

The Kakucs-Turjan archaeological site was investigated by a Polish-Hungarian-German research team of archaeologists and various specialists. This volume contains the first, preliminary results of their work, giving the reader an insight into the complex history of the Bronze Age settlement and its economic activities as reflected in the multi-layered stratigraphy of the site. The currently analysed materials from Kakucs-Turjan may help to indicate the basic parameters of the development and functioning of the Middle Bronze Age Vatya culture; on the one hand strongly based on local tradition, on the other contextualized within a wider network covering the Carpathian Basin.

This volume is based on a revised and modified version of a doctoral dissertation devoted to defensive settlements – one of the foremost phenomena of Early Bronze Age in Central Europe. The book offers an aspectual, detailed characterization of sources which prove crucial for the understanding of emergence, development and functioning of fortified settlements in four selected areas of Central Europe: its Alpine region, south-western Greater Poland, the Middle Danube Basin and the Upper Tisza Basin. At present, the trial areas taken into consideration offer the most comprehensive pool of archaeological data, which served the author to conduct an interregional comparative analysis of the aforesaid phenomenon.