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THE ORIENT AND EUROPE
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12 V. GORDON CHILDE
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FIG. 4.--CLAY STAMP, KOR*S
SETTLEMENT AT HODME'ZOVA~SAR-
HELY --KOTACSPART (2:3)
(Archaeological Institute of the Uni-
versity, Szeged)
FIG.5. -DOUBLEAXE-
HEAD OF STONE FROM
ARPACHIYA 1:1
(British Museum)
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Sack of
Troy VIIb Vardino
Vardino Swords, fibulae, urnfield wares VI 1200
Kassites VI
VShaft graves heads, 1800
M.Hheads,. Vattina ware
Hammurab Troy IIE.H. Ingot-torques, knot, racquet & 2000
EarlyAlisar BEarly scroll-head pins, lock-rings
Dynastic Macedonian 2800
al'Ubaid ?Kum
Alisar Tepe
Al ?I Neolithic "Pintadera
bowls
TABLE I
If geologists and botanists can show good grounds for demanding an enlargement
and prolongation backward of the neolithic age, archaeological chronology can be
adjusted to meet theirs without violating Montelius' axioms. Danubian I, admit-
tedly the earliest neolithic culture in continental Europe, would still be limited by
Tell Halaf. If the former have to be dated to the sixth millennium, the latter can just
as reasonably be assigned a like antiquity.
The foregoing dates are advanced only as extreme possibilities. How would
1 Cf. Evans, op. cit. i, fig. 139, a, with Dolgozatok vii, 1931, pl. IV, 15 and Childe, Danube, fig. 217
(dated too late). 2 Childe, Danube, pp. 261, 336.
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FIG. 6. -POTTERY OF VATTINA STYLE, SZ6REG
(City Museum, Szeged)
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1 For synchronization of later neolithic in North with Early Bronze Age in Central Europe see
Childe, "Antiquity of the British Bronze Age," Amer. Anthr. xxxix, 1937, p. 12, K. Kersten, Zur dlteren
nordischen Bronzezeit, Neuminster, p. 101 and E. J. Forssander, Der ostskandinavische Norden wdhrend
der diteren Bronzezeit, Lund, 1937, p. 163.
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Mesopotamia Anatolia Gr
Macedonia period B.C.
Sack of
Troy VIIb a Swords, urnfield wares VI 1150
Vardino
Hammurabi Troy
III to V M.H. Copper III 2000
?battle-axes
Ur III Alisar
Troy B II block
"Pintaderas,"
vases
II 2500
TABLE II
1 From Nemcice na Hane and Jirikovice (near Brno) in the Moravske Zemske Museum at Brno.
2 Beck and Stone, "Faience Beads of the British Bronze Age," Archaeologia lxxxv, 1935, p. 924.
3Childe, Danube, pp. 216-220; Nestor, BRGK. 29, pp. 84-89; Tompa, BRGK. 24-25, p. 75; Aberg,
Chronologie, iii, 45.
4 J. Bthm, Zaklady hdllstattsk6 periody v Cechach, Praha, 1937, p. 40.
6 K. Willvonseder, "Grtber der alteren Bronzezeit von Leopoldsdorf," Germania xxi, 1937, p. 91.
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