Folia archeologica 24.

Tibor Kovács: Representations of Weapons on Bronze Age Pottery

WEAPONS ON BRONZE AGE POTTERY 13 Fig. 4. by hoards of the Incrusted Pottery group, resp. for the territory east from the Danube by hoards of Hajdúsámson type,

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4 indicate the beginning of a disintegration of the classical Middle Bronze Age cultures during the second half resp. at the end of the 15th century B.C.

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5 Displacements in the population of the Carpathian basin resulted in an ethnical amalgamation which changed the cultural aspect of a large area almost entiraly. While in Transdanubia the majority of the settle1

4 Mozjolics, A., Bronzefunde des Karpatenbeckens. (Bp. 1967) 121-123.; Bóna, I., Acta Arch. Hung. 9(1958) 222-228.; Kőszegi, F., Acta Arch. Hung. 20(1968) 136-141. 1

5 The historical background of ethnical and territorial realignment may be found in the westward expansion of the Füzesabony culture - to the detriment of the territories of the Vatya and Magyarád cultures; the stimulus can be attributed to events connected with the development of the Bodrogszerdahely group. Kemencééi, T., Arch.

Ért. 95(1968) 164, 186; the author of the present paper has dealt with the hypotheses outlined here in detail: Kovács, T., Acta Arch. Hung. 23(1971) 394, resp. Id., A bronzkor emlékei Magyarországon. Hereditas. In print.