Baden Culture

an archaeological culture of the late Bronze Age (third millennium B. C). It is named after discoveries made in a cave near the city of Baden (Austria). It is on the territory of present-day Hungary (there it is called the Pécel culture), Czechoslovakia, and Austria, northwestern and northern Yugoslavia, western Rumania, and the Trans-carpathian Ukraine. The Baden culture is known primarily for its burial mounds (such as Budakalász) containing single or collective graves (interments; more rarely, cremated remains). It is characterized by polished stone axes, triangular arrowheads, shell ornaments, clay animal figurines, and occasionally copper ornaments and awls. Ceramic wares include bowls divided into two parts with partitions, pitchers with high-placed handles and fluted decoration, and am-phoras. The hunting and pastoral tribes of the Baden culture lived in fortified settlements.