The Maros Group and the Early Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin

Abstract

The preceding chapters have described the organization and operation of the Maros funerary program and have built up a picture of both the individual communities and the larger society of the Maros group. In these discussions, the social and environmental background has frequently been alluded to. In this chapter, the character of interactions between the Maros villages and their neighbors is brought to the foreground. The consideration of the cultural landscape of the south Hungarian Plain necessarily touches on elements of the physical landscape as well as on the contemporary groups in the region, both of which were introduced in Chapter 3.

I hear that old tyrant approaching, That cruel remorseless old foe. But I lift up my glass in his honor, Have a drink with old Rosin the Beau.

—“Rosin the Beau” Traditional Irish ballad