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The Tartaria Tablets: a Chronological Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Extract

In the June number of ANTIQUITY Mr Sinclair Hood introduced to the readers of this journal the sensational find of the so-called Neolithic inscribed tablets from Transylvania. When this find was announced for the first time [I], it made a great impression upon everybody who appreciated its significance. It was a kind of deus ex machina which seemed to solve once and for all one of the crucial issues of Central European archaeology: the absolute chronology of the Neolithic Period.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1968

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* For the classification of these bowls see [16]. A new piece of type 2 (Iža) decorated with corded triangles has recently been found in Slovakia and is being prepared for publication by Mrs V. Němejcová-Pavúková. This is the closest parallel so far to the piece found in Thessaly ([7], 27, fig. 21, 2).

A convincing correlation of the hammer-headed pin horizon with the Central European late Corded- Ware can also be achieved through the Ukraine and Little Poland.