The Middle Bronze Age in Romanian Banat. About the Cornești–Crvenka group/ceramic style

The late scholar Nikola Tasić, forty years ago, while analysing the Vatin culture, identified a group of finds for which he suggested the term Crvenka– Cornești. The present paper summarises key moments that shaped the definition, the chronological issues, the area of distribution, and the origin of the Cornești– Crvenka ceramic group/style. We consider the Cornești–Crvenka ceramic group/style to be an archaeological reality of the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000/1900– 1600/1500 BC) in historical Banat, belonging to the Vatin cultural circle. It was formed on the basis of the “horizon with Besenstrich und Textilmuster ceramic”, typical of the Early Bronze Age in this area.