Resumen de Social formation and collapse in the Tisza-Maros region: dating the Maros Group and its Late Bronze Age successors
John M. O'Shea, Györgyi M. Parditka, Amy Nicodemus, Kristian Kristiansen, Karl-Goran Sjogren, László Paja, György Pàlfi, Lidija Milašinović
Radiocarbon dating is paramount for chronologically defining the rise of polities in the Middle Bronze Age Carpathian Basin. This article presents a suite of new radiocarbon dates obtained from sites associated with the Early and Middle Bronze Age Maros Group, and its Late Bronze Age successors in the Tisza-Maros region of south-east Hungary, western Romania and northern Serbia. The results indicate tight chronological synchronisation of Middle Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries in the Maros region, while confirming the accuracy of ceramic-based relative chronology for the Szőreg cemetery
