Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 16. (1982) (Szombathely, 1983)
Fr Kőszegi: World history and the Urnfield culture
hoff Il/a type, the so called Peschiera dagger, the flame formed spear head etc. 8 Beyond these bronzes lately /fluey have been talking about a home made rough pottery found in the heart of the Mycaenean culture with a considered provenance of southern Balkan or Central Europe. 9 Without taking a stand in this very important question concerning the history of our continent it should serve as a reminder that 'prominent representatives of this line of research, starting with V. G. Childe, up to now, have emphasized the mutual relations of the north and the south forming their respective histories accordingly. 10 There .are only a few people left doubting the existence of the oonnectians between the two regions, nevertheless the cahaircter .and ways and 'means of these relations are even more problematic. A part of the northern Greek objects, mainly offensive arms, truly suggest the idea of these coming with ethnic groups from the north and extended their use in the Mediterraenean. The chronological priority, however, cannot be easily determined in case of these objects, even more so, there are a few objects which undoubtedly had been used in the south earlier than in the north, the mentioned sword of Sprockhoff and the spear head are from the north for certain. A few authors rightfully presume that these weapons that can be easily found both in the heartland of the Greek world and in the periphery as well were brought by the foreign warriors during the time of destruction. 11 These could have been members of loot-hungry robbing gangs, or mercenaries hired to fend off the gangs; nevertheless the reality of this presumption is greater than the one .that presumes Danubian urnfield elements among the members of the league of the Sea People, such who would have learned the tricks of the sea and sailing along the way. 12 There is other well founded evidence proving that the two worlds, the southern and the northern could have got acquainted closer during the 13th century В. С More and more such find units come to light at the periphery of the Mycaenean world in Macedonia, the Vardar valley in the mountains of Albania, both bronze land pottery which are witness to an ethnicity of northern origin. Ever since Heurtly published the pottery of the well known settlements dated by HeUiadic III В and С material, a pottery that was determined as being of Lausitz type by many at the time the question of a presumed connection with the Urnfield culture of the Danube region had been currently discussed ever since just because the (mentioned pottery types. 13 Recently such material of the Vardaroptsoha and related sites are being oorrolated with the circle of the Caka type finds of wiestern Slovakia and western Transdianulbia. Although their identity shapewise cannot be doubted, those however, advocating the latter presumption forgot something, something of crucial importance concerning the finish and the basic ingredient of these vessels. The Macedonian material is way behind the well formed, carefully fired, thin walled, polished pottery of the mentioned Caka tumulus graves, which in itself makes the presumption doubtful, whereby a direct ethnic connection must be looked for between these two areas. 14 Nevertheless we cannot exclude the possibility of the distribution of 'certain elements of the Urnfield people in the Balkan, neither the possibility of ethnic movements, but we have no well founded evidence of the activity of some Urnfield people coming from Transdianiulbia or western Slovakia in the area of northern Greece. Concerning the mentioned Macedonian wares it seems more likely that the ethnic groups using this pottery must have cotmie from the northern edge
