A Middle Bronze Age Axe from Csernáton/Cernat (Covasna County, Romania) Cover Image

Egy középső bronzkori balta Csernátonból (Cernat, Ro)
A Middle Bronze Age Axe from Csernáton/Cernat (Covasna County, Romania)

Contributions to the typology and deposition of the Pădureni-type axes

Author(s): Jozsef Puskas
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Middle Bronze Age; Transylvania; deposition; axes; landscape archaeology

Summary/Abstract: The axe presented below was discovered in 2009, during a survey with metal detectors in Cernat (Covasna County, Romania). The object represents a well-known Transylvanian Middle Bronze Age weapon-type. The first part of the paper deals with the close neighborhood of the axe and the landscape, the deposition custom, while the second part with the distribution of different variants on a larger area.

  • Issue Year: 144/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 97-119
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Hungarian