Travelling or not? Tracing Individual Mobility Patterns of Late Bronze Age Metalworkers in the Carpathian Basin

Satu Mare - Studii şi Comunicări. Seria Archeologie. — 2012. — Nr. XXVIII / 1 — p. 211-229.The present paper tries to address the problem of mobile craftsmen in the Bronze Age of southeastern Europe by having a close look at their main tools: casting moulds. The starting points are two moulds for socketed axes discovered at Mediaş-Cetate, a hill settlement situated in eastern Transylvania. Due to their context, material and technical features they can be attributed to the same founder. This offers the possibility to investigate the supra-regional influences acting on an individual metalwork.