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KLÁRA P. FISCHL - VIKTÓRIA KISS - GABRIELLA KULCSÁR THE USE OF PORTABLE STOVES IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN I. THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE A salient type of domestic pottery at the tellcultures of the Middle Bronze Age is represented by portable stoves. According to recently published data, their use can also be observed not only in the inheritance of tell-creating people, expanding in time from the Late Copper Age through the Late Bronze Age and even further, until the Early Iron Age. Following the recent re-inspection of old finds, it was found that we actually have a lot more data available about the shards belonging to this category than it had been expected previously. The typological examinations have affirmed that a number of shards that, due to their overfragmented quality, had been considered non-reconstructable by researchers as parts of a larger storing vessel or pot, are actually bits and pieces of this type of objects. This holds true not only for portable stoves, but also in regard to other examples of domestic pottery in Middle Bronze Age settlements and cultures. Several basic types of portable caldron stoves have been identified. These are the hourglass shaped type, the type with built-in gridiron, and the type with built-in pots. Within these basic types, there are still a number of further variations, which are complemented by other forms that can be easily discerned structurally and functionally. According to the collected data available at present, the pieces with built-in gridiron appeared first, while the ones with built-in pots followed later, around the second half of the Late Bronze Age, and continued to be used as late as the Early Iron Age. The portable caldron stoves can be identified to have existed in almost every culture of the Late Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin. However, the chronological frame of their use, the extent of their dissemination, and their relationship to specific cultural media or lifestyles have not been clarified to this very day. Thus, the following questions might be asked: irrespective of the fact that, from time to time, their shape went through different phases of renewal, to what extent can caldron stoves be considered basically useful and general commodities and, as a consequence, how does the information value inherent in them get revised concerning the late Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin? P. FISCHL KLÁRA 3532 MISKOLC TORONTÁLI u. 20. KISS VIKTÓRIA MTA RÉGÉSZETI INTÉZET 1014 BUDAPEST ÚRI U. 49. KULCSÁR GABRIELLA MTA RÉGÉSZETI INTÉZET 1014 BUDAPEST ÚRI u. 49.