摘要：Along the M31 Motorway at Nagytarcsa.Uras¨¢gi-d.l., amongst other periods, an Early Iron Age settlement
section was excavated. Wheel-made wares, represented amongst the finds from the Scythian period of the
settlement, directed our attention to the problems concerning Early Iron Age wheel-made pottery. Forty-four
sherds were selected from the ceramic material of the settlement, which were examined by the usual typological
methods of archaeology and were also submitted for petrographic microscopy analysis. Ceramic analyses were
also supplemented by petrographic analysis of sediments, which were collected at the site. Three sherds,
characteristic of the Vekerzug group (a wheel-made biconical pot or plate; a hand-built bowl with inverted rim;
and a hand-built barrel-shaped pot), were examined by LA-ICP-MS and XRD analyses to identify possible
connections and variations between the raw materials and tempers in the different ceramic types. One of the
aims of our analyses was to determine the provenance of the ceramics and to assess whether the technological
characteristics postulate the former existence of specialized workshop at the site, since wheel-made wares
required distinctive technological knowledge.
关键词：WHEEL-TURNED POTTERY, PETROGRAPHY, LA-ICP-MS, XRD, VEKERZUG-GROUP, EARLY IRON AGE
