Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters

The early Vinča culture in Transylvania. Consideration regarding the chronological position, from the correspondence analysis perspectives

Dragoş Diaconescu

Known, especially in the XXth century’s literature, as Vinča-Turdaș phase, the early stage of Vinča culture was culturally separated, due to the last 30 years of archaeological researches in Transylvania and Romanian Banat, in two distinct entities: early Vinča culture and Turdaș culture. The first one is considered to be contemporary to phases A and B of the Vinča culture (according to W. Schier chronology) and the other one to the second half of phase C and the beginning of the D phase. The discoveries from Transylvania assigned, using the comparative method, to the early Vinča culture (A2-B1 sub-phases), are re-evaluated based on the correspondence analysis method and Bayesian approaches.