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Multi-periodSite Name: Százhalombatta Tell Alternative Name: Százhalombatta-Földvár
Country: Hungary
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Budapest  Nearest Village: Százhalombatta
Latitude: 47.336524N  Longitude: 18.940272E
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Százhalombatta Tell
Százhalombatta Tell submitted by Creative Commons : The Archaeological Park is in its original location from 2,700 years ago, in the early Iron Age tumuli were raised. They are one of the wooden beams burial chamber - inside are simulations and a multilingual multimedia program - unique in Hungary. The 20-minute program presents contemporary modes of burial. Creative Commons image by Bozor Magdi (Vote or comment on this photo)
Bronze Age tell in Hungary on the banks of the Danube south of Budapest. The site is an Archaeology park. Tells consist of numerous civilisation layers on top of each other. A local website suggest there are numerous barrows in the area of which one is open with a modern passageway as part of the Matrica museum.

The museum also has a rebuilt "prehistoric house"

Note: Effective use of power in the Bronze Age societies of Central Europe, also anyone in Hungary to explore these barrows for us?
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Százhalombatta Tell
Százhalombatta Tell submitted by Flickr : Szazhalombatta Site in Hungary Image copyright: Magyoz, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Glimpsing Social Organisation. Evidence from the Bronze Age Tell at Százhalombatta by Andy B on Monday, 16 February 2015
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Glimpsing Social Organisation. Evidence from the Bronze Age Tell at Százhalombatta-Földvár by Joanna Sofaer, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,
Magdolna Vicze

Interpretations of tells have traditionally been linked to questions about the relationships between different types of sites. It is usually assumed that tells had the highest rank and most central role within a regional settlement hierarchy. The tell-building regions in Bronze Age Europe do indeed provide evidence of a particular settlement system, one in which there must have been various kinds of differentiations between the settlements. This much is unambiguous and generally agreed upon.

It is not clear, however, what these differences meant. Nor is it obvious how to reach data-informed interpretations of the socio-political as well as economic dimensions of the co-existence of such diverse forms. The differences between various sites would have affected how people lived within them. They would also have informed fundamental aspects of life such as how people related to each other, their sense of generational time, and notions of belonging within a particular place. The core question about the nature of the relationships between these sites remains, however, as challenging and as unanswerable as ever. Sufficiently fine-grained comparative data from the range of sites, from small one-layered households to the densely settled long-duration tells, are still missing from our archaeological ‘data reservoir’.

https://www.academia.edu/9414045/Glimpsing_Social_Organisation._Evidence_from_the_Bronze_Age_Tell_at_Sz%C3%A1zhalombatta-F%C3%B6ldv%C3%A1r
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Effective use of power in the Bronze Age societies of Central Europe by davidmorgan on Friday, 14 January 2011
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During the first part of the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, a large proportion of the population lived in what are known as tell-building societies.
A thesis in archaeology from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) shows that the leaders of these societies had the ability to combine several sources of power in an effective way in order to dominate the rest of the population, which contributed towards creating a notably stable social system.

Tell-building societies are named after a distinct form of settlements with a high density of population and construction, which over the course of time accumulated such thick cultural layers that they took on the shape of low mounds.

On the basis of a discussion and analysis of previously published material from the Carpathian Basin and new findings from the tell settlement Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary, the author of the thesis, Claes Uhnér, describes the ways in which leaders could exercise power. Tell-building societies had relatively advanced economies. The subsistence economy, which was based on agricultural production and animal husbandry, produced a good return, and the societies were involved in regional and long-distance exchange of bronzes and other valuable craft products.

“By exercising a degree of control over these parts of the economy, it was possible for leaders to finance political activities and power-exerting organisations,” says Uhnér.
He shows in his thesis that, through military power, leaders were able to control surrounding settlements from fortified tells. As the majority of these settlements were situated next to rivers and other natural transport routes, they could demand tribute from passing trade expeditions and act as intermediaries in the exchange of goods that took place in the region.
In addition, a large tell was a manifestation of a successful society with a long history. This situation made it possible for leaders to use the cultural traditions of the society in ideological power strategies.

“The tells served as physical manifestations of a social system that worked well, which legitimised the social position of the elites and their right to lead.
An important conclusion drawn by Uhnér is that the sources of power could be used in strategies where they supported each other. Economic power made it possible to master military and ideological means of power. Military power was utilised to safeguard economic and ideological resources, while ideology legitimised the social system. This was largely
possible because the tell settlements served as political power centres. Redistribution of staples and specialised production was attached to these sites, and they had key military and ideological significance. “By controlling tells and the activities carried out in them, leaders had an organisational advantage over the rest of the population, and others found it very difficult to build up competing power positions,” says Uhnér.

During the first part of the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, a large proportion of the population lived in what are known as tell-building societies. A thesis in archaeology from the University of Gothenburg shows that the leaders of these societies had the ability to combine several sources of power in an effective way in order to dominate the rest of the population, which contributed towards creating a notably stable social system.
Tell-building societies are named after a distinct form of settlements with a high density of population and construction, which over the course of time accumulated such thick cultural layers that they took on the shape of low mounds.

On the basis of a discussion and analysis of previously published material from the Carpathian Basin and new findings from the tell settlement Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary, the author of the thesis, Claes Uhnér, describes the ways in which leaders could exercise power. T

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