A CULTURE OF MIDDLE BRONZE AGE ON THE TERRITORY OF ROMANIA: WIETTENBERG
A CULTURE OF MIDDLE BRONZE AGE ON THE TERRITORY OF ROMANIA: WIETTENBERG

Summary/Abstract: The present study has in view an ancient period from the History of Art on the territory of Romania, that is the Middle Bronze Age. In this period which itself comes with changes, among which the most important is the spreading of the solar cult, a fact also reflected in art (in the general context of the entire Bronze Age Ŕ which brought social progress, but also an artistic one, if we were to mention a ceramics which tries to reproduce pots from metal), the culture Wietenberg is one of the important cultures of the moment, which comes with special achievements, regarding both the settlements and the ceramics. An enumeration could comprise: settlements disposed in a circle around one, as a fortress, which implies social differences, and one of the found houses has even preserved decorations in the soft clay; the ceramics brings rich, baroque forms and a diverse decor regarding the motifs and the obtaining technique, disposed in registers, with a radial succession (connected to the solar symbolism).

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