Manifestation of economy changes in the Middle Bronze Age Moravia
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
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| Description | The Middle Bronze Age (local 1600 - 1300 BC) is transition period under the Early Bronze Age with the Neolithic tradition and Urnfield period with the compact look society. The objective of this paper is to manifestate particular changes in the context. It would be spoken about the time after the new radiocarbon data, about the change of material of artefacts, about the structural change in Middle Bronze Age settlement, which is represented in Moravia with dispersed lowland sites, recurring structures of timber framed and post hole houses and the transformation of settlement features. The occurrence of hilltop settlements is still assumed only at the beginning and at the end of the Middle Bronze Age. We can see changes in crop husbandry and sufficiency of livestock breeding. From this point of view is short time of the Middle Bronze Age a period of significant transition that is conditioned by economic prosperity. The question remains whether the increasing number of archaeological traces is related to real population growth or a change in the nature of the living culture. |
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