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In recent years several Late Bronze Age settlements have been discovered in the Serbian Banat region, southern Carpathian Basin. These are spread along the eastern region of the Tisza River and vary in size and shape, with some achieving considerable areas.
Sharing general characteristics such as the presence of ditches, clusters of subcircular pale soil marks (visible in aerial photographs or satellite imagery), and the common use of Belegiš pottery, they were designated Tisza Site Group (TSG) (Molloy et al., 2020).
By combining published databases with data from regional bibliography, historical maps and results of satellite imagery analyses, a more comprehensive database was built, seeking to unite historical data with more modern methodologies, gathering as much information possible for future research and comparative studies regarding LBA communities.
This presentation will focus on the construction of the database, from the choice of fields to be included, to the methods used, and how the results obtained were applied in several analyses, during my doctoral thesis, regarding settlement dynamics during the LBA. Future use by other researchers will also be addressed.
Keywords:
Database, Late Bronze Age, Enclosures, southern Carpathian Basin