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Kőszegi Frigyes: Az oroszvári bronzkori temető

The Вгонке Age cementery at Oroszvár 59 Alsónémedi, Loretto phase, which perhaps could be made parallel with the Nagyrév culture settled at Tószeg i. e. with the beginning of the Tószeg A period. The end of the Gâta culture can be dated to the period BB (according to Reinecke), which in our opinion is more probably in the second half of the period. As we see the decline of the Gâta culture was caused by the people of the tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age being more and more expanding at this time and which could occupy only temporary the Western part of Transdanubia (e. g. grave of Keszthely) and only afterwards destructed the Bronze Age settlements lying East or Southeast of this area.

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0 As also Pittioni has stated, the Gâta culture is connected genetically with both the younger groups of the culture of the bell beakers and that of Guntramsdorf-Drassburg.

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3 At the same time in the features of the culture ethnical elements originating from South Russia may also have played their part. Besides these influences of Perjámos culture have appeared too. The route of the effects coming from the Caucasus is not quite clear yet. According of some references it could have arrived interwoven with the elements of Perjámos,

114 but we must not ignore the intervening part played by the people of the corded pottery refering here to the grave of Föllik.