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Rewriting the Central European Early Bronze Age Chronology: Evidence from
Large-Scale Radiocarbon Dating
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Stockhammer PW
; Massy K
; Knipper C
; Friedrich R
; Kromer B
; Lindauer S
; Radosavljevi? J
; Wittenborn F
; Krause J
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(10
): e0139705
PMID26488413
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The transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe has
often been considered as a supra-regional uniform process, which led to the
growing mastery of the new bronze technology. Since the 1920s, archaeologists
have divided the Early Bronze Age into two chronological phases (Bronze A1 and
A2), which were also seen as stages of technical progress. On the basis of the
early radiocarbon dates from the cemetery of Singen, southern Germany, the
beginning of the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe was originally dated around
2300/2200 BC and the transition to more complex casting techniques (i.e., Bronze
A2) around 2000 BC. On the basis of 140 newly radiocarbon dated human remains
from Final Neolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age cemeteries south of Augsburg
(Bavaria) and a re-dating of ten graves from the cemetery of Singen, we propose a
significantly different dating range, which forces us to re-think the traditional
relative and absolute chronologies as well as the narrative of technical
development. We are now able to date the beginning of the Early Bronze Age to
around 2150 BC and its end to around 1700 BC. Moreover, there is no transition
between Bronze (Bz) A1 and Bronze (Bz) A2, but a complete overlap between the
type objects of the two phases from 1900-1700 BC. We thus present a revised
chronology of the assumed diagnostic type objects of the Early Bronze Age and
recommend a radiocarbon-based view on the development of the material culture.
Finally, we propose that the traditional phases Bz A1 and Bz A2 do not represent
a chronological sequence, but regionally different social phenomena connected to
the willingness of local actors to appropriate the new bronze technology.