2011/08/01 by Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Bernhard S. Heeb, Julia Heeb +3 · 31 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Prehistory #Bronze Age #Settlement (finance) #Archaeology #Romanian #Excavation #History #Capital (architecture) #Ancient history #Geography
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00068332
published in Antiquity 85(329), 819-838 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2011/08/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/08
A massive Late Bronze Age fortified settlement in Central Europe has been the subject of a new and exemplary investigation by excavation and site survey. This prehistoric enclosure, nearly 6km across, had a complex development, dense occupation and signs of destruction by fire. It can hardly be other than a capital city playing a role in the determinant struggles of its day — weighty and far reaching events of the European continent now being chronicled by archaeology.