Vándor Andrea szerk.: Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 50-52/2 (2005-2007) (Pécs, 2008)

Gábor Olivér: Kr.e.

Resumée The investigation of the sites and finds brings us closer to the extraordinarily diverse ethnic relations and cultural mixing of the world on the border of the early Iron Age and the leate Iron Age. On the Jakab-hill close by, the Pre-Scythian influences appearing in the first quarter of the 1

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t millennium B.C. (bridle, iron) mixed with the traditions of the late Bronz Age. The surviving population here are better known exactly due to the vestiges made by their Bronz Age ancestors. Around us, in the surroundings of the Mecsek, the sites belonging to the end of the early Iron Age and the beginning of the late Iron Age, such as the the settlement on Jakab Hill and the closeby sites (Szentlőrinc - JEREM 1968, HARMATTA 1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90; Beremend - JEREM 1973; Dunaszekcső-Szárazd-Regöly JEREM 1973 Abb 10; and Szajk), the influence from the Eastern-Alps as well as from the Balkans can be traced, the latter especially due to the oinochoe jugs and the astralagos belts. The maps showing the distribution of early Iron Age cultures, Baranya county belongs neither to the Eastern-Halstatt, nor to the lllyric nor the Thracian-Kimmer cultures, but at the meetingpoint of these (GALTER-KRAMER 2007 1) (Picture 8.). The inhabitants of the settlement from the 6-4

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h centuries found at Szajk could have been the Pannonians known from Antique literature that appeared as a people in this era around the Drava and would become so important within a few hundred years, that the Romans arriving here would name the province after them. The fact that the oinochoe-type jugs appeared in Szajk may indicate that the Szajk settlement was in connection with the route of communication that helped the spread of wine and viticulture from the South several times during the Prehistoric times. A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 1 82