Route: Decorations with communicative value
 

 
Artefact's name: Pintadera
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Tool
Country: Italy
Chronology: 5800-5400 BP
 
Period: Middle Neolithic
 
Oval shaped, quite elongated pintadera made out of a black clay.The pintaderas are traditionally interpreted as tattoo instruments, but they could be also textile stamps or systems of reconnaissance in...
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Antropomorphic Figurine
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Bronze Age
 
The figurine has a shallow body, the torso is flat, the head is rhomboidal.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4000-3500 BC
 
Period: Eneolithic
 
Vessel made of clay painted with encoded geometrical decorative motifs
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Neolithic
 
Sphere-like bottom part and high cylindrical neck.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Plate with incises and signs
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Chalcolithic
 
In the shape of shallow small vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Seal
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Other
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Chalcolithic
 
The seal has a rounded shape with a cone-like handle in the back.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 2
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 1
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 3
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Other
Country: Italy
Chronology: 2000-1800 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Askhos
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Animal figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1250-800 BC
 
Period: Late Bronze Age
 
A horizontal oval-shaped vessel on a stand-ring.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel with asymmetrical handle
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2100 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age
 
Asimmetric vessel from Szigetszentmiklós settlement site of the Bell Beaker Csepelgroup.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell beaker
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2100 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age 2
 
Red-painted Bell Beaker from Budapest, Csepel Island.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Boot-shaped vessel
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1250-800 BC
 
Period: Late Bronze Age
 
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Artefact's name: Double-faced vessel
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
The reconstructed bottle-shaped vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Headless idol (for interchangeable heads)
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 3700-2800 BC
 
Period: Late Copper Age
 
Unearthed from a settlement of the Baden culture.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel with symbolic representation
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2200-1900 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age 3.a
 
Vessel with stylized sun and moon decoration.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Pot
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5th mil. BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
Medium sized, round flanked pot.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Miniature jar
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1st half 5th mil. BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
Round flanked small jar
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Facial vessel in the form of a sitting figure
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
This vessel thoroughly imitates the form of the human body.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Idol head fragment with headdress
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2200 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age 2
 
Idol fragment with headdress from the Early Bronze Age.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell beaker
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2000 BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic
 
The vessel in form of a bell was well conserved.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Spindle - whorl
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Tool
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4500-3300BC
 
Period: Final Neolithic<
 
Clay discoid spindle-whorl with incised symbols, dated to the Late or the Final Neolithic period (4800-3300 BC).
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bone Artefact
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Amulet
Country: Romania
Chronology: 8500-8000 BC
 
Period: Epipaleolithic
 
An old and strange artefact made of bone, with a conspicuous decor
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell Beaker Cup from Santa Cristina di Fiesse
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Italy
Chronology: -
 
Period: Late Eneolithic
 
Cup characterized by its bell shaped feature, open mouthed rim, globular body and curved base. The body presents typical Bell Beaker decorations.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Fragment of faced pot
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Pest
Chronology: 4700-4600 BC
 
Period: Middle
 
Representation of Human face on the lip of a vessel from Neolithic
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Bell B
 
Museum of: Wien
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: -
Chronology: -
 
Period: -
 
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