Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

ANALYSES - POTTERY - Erzsébet JEREM - Márta BALLA - László BALÁZS: Early celtic stamped pottery in the eastern Alpine area: workshop activity and trade

5. Conclusions Prior to our research presented here, no similar analyses have been carried out on pottery from the Iron Age in Hungary. Moreover, no sites (not even those located in the plains) have ever revealed such a great number of potters

1 kilns. Naturally, the analyses thus conducted have raised new questions as well. The number of samples must undoubtedly be increased., and their selection will need additional care. Ware associated with other kilns as well as defected pottery are of interest, since they offer evidence of local production. Additional studies of stamped ware and of the so-called, horn-handled bowls (with well known chronological and spatial distributions) among them is planned for the near future. This work requires the procurement of additional samples, even from outside the territory of Hungary. High resolution diachronic differentiation, that is an emphasis on changes, are of primary importance. It seems likely already at this stage of work that special, individual products by this workshop that functioned for a long time will be worth studying by using a greater range of comprehensive methods. Finally, it should be noted that such investigations, in addition to the direct analyses of chemical composition, offer solutions for numerous problems related to economic and industrial history. The thus received results shed light on bartering or imports which always reflect movements of peoples and groups, thereby illustrating historical process and the emergence of new connections. Fig. 8: Sopron-Krautacker, Late Hallstatt finds from Pit No. 236/a with the so-called Thracian cup. 93