The Marvelous Land of

"The sites of the Late Copper Age Baden culture, known as the Ózd-Piliny group in Northeast Hungary, have been occupying a special place in the research of prehistoric times in Hungary, including the Late Copper Age, for about half a century. settlements, the associated lowland-type settlements of the Great Plain, and the stone-packed, piled, urn-cremation cemeteries next to the settlements are another curiosity. Supposed connection with Troy The volume attempts to revise the late Baden cultural group Ózd-Piliny, re-examining the special group characteristics so far with the currently available methods.The Late Copper Age sites assigned to the Ózd-Piliny Baden group in northeastern Hungary occupy a prominent place in Hungar ian prehistoric studies and particularly in research on the Late Copper Age. burial mounds and inurned cremation graves. Another curious aspect of this group is represented by the unique anthropomorphic funerary vessels that since the publication of Nándor Kalicz's monograph in 1963 have served as evidence for the link with Troy, the site on which the chronology of European prehistory was pegged. This book offers a critical review of the late Baden Ózd-Piliny group using the currently available analytical approaches for testing the validity of the group's previously distinguished cultural attributes. "