Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 30-31 (1985-1986) (Pécs, 1987)

Régészet - Maráz Borbála: Későbronzkori magaslati település Pécs-Jakabhegyen (Előzetes közlemény az 1976–83. évi ásatásokról)

KÉSOBRONZKORÎ MAGASLATI TELEPÜLÉS PECS-JAKABHEGYEN 47 together. On the other side, the mounds covered some objects of the LBA settlement (pits and hearths) stabilizing them in original position without further erosion (figs. 1—4). This paper is intended to publish the LBA settlement—material found in the course of the excavations of the Early Iron Age (Hallstatt С period) tumuli. Judging from the typology of the material it seems very likely that the earliest settlement of Pécs—Jakabhegy dates back to the BD — Hallstatt A period and belongs to the Early Urn-field Culture. This is the period when other mountain-areas of Transdanubia also became settled and the net-work of the well défendable settlements in different regions were established. The LBA settlement in question must have been given up and abandoned by its inhabitants about the end of the Hallstatt A period. Both the Urn-field material containing the types of the early phase only and the fact that the remains of the LBA settlement have been discovered in the area of the Early Iron Age cemetery with barrows seem to point to a cultural break, a hiatus between the Hallstatt A and Hallstatt С periods i. e. during the time of the Hallstatt В period. The depot of bronze items found outside of the Urn-field settlementarea, on the slope of the Jakabhegy also belongs to the Hallstatt A phase and its hiding may well have been connected with the abandonment of the Urn-field settlement of the plateau.