Vladimir I. Zavyalov*, Natalya N. Terekhova**
Institute of Archaeology R AS, Moscow, Russia
*E-mail: v_zavyalov@list.ru
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Keywords: Eastern Europe, transition period, archaeometallography, technological model.

Archaeometallographic data suggest that in the territory of Eastern Europe there existed two technological models as early as during the transition period from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (the 11th – 7th centuries BC). Their formation was associated with two ways of spreading knowledge about ferrous metal from Anatolia. The first way which formed the “Caucasian” model passed through Transcaucasia to the North Caucasus. The second path went through Greece and the Balkans and further to the territory of Central and Eastern Europe.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630005666-1