Hungary - Trade and Cultural interrelationship
The spread of the neolithic lifestyle in Europe between 5700-5000 B.C. Territory of the ALPC and its associated groups in Europe. In the second half of the 6th Millennium the territory of the Linear Pottery Culture spread to encompass an area stretching from Holland and the Paris Basin to the Ukraine and Moldavia but excluding the Carpathians. Although local groups developed in larger areas, all exhibited shared, similarities within the dominating features such as in the fields of settlement structures, lifestyle, belief systems and social systems.
Of course, regional differences were present in many smaller aspects such as form and decorations of the material culture. The obvious question is how, over such a large area, these close interrelationship were sustainable.
One probalble explanation, beside the role of ethic connections and shared belief systems, is the role of trade and exchange sytems. The trade and exchange of the stone tools and raw materials can be traced back to much earlier periods, for example the ancient hunting groups had long been trading amongst each other. In our region the obsidian from Zemplen and Tokaj, the quarz from Mátra, the Szentgál, the radiolarite from Szentgál and Mecsek and the flint from Little Poland constituted the raw material, that were distributed to far lying territories. Beside the stone tools, the spondylus shell and the associated jewellery were also important trade items and were spead from the Aegean to the Carpathians and beyond. It is also possible that the richly decorated fine quality wares also represented an important trade item in the region.
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Themes
Environment
Cultural context
Local resources
Settlements
Population
Material culture
Art
Funeral world
Religion
Social system
Trade/contacts
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