Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture

{{Short description|Bronze Age archaeological culture}}

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| period = Early Bronze Age

| dates = c. 2300-1600 BC

| typesite = Somogyvár, Vinkovci

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| precededby = Vučedol culture, Yamnaya culture

| followedby = Encrusted Pottery culture, Vatin culture

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The Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture was an Early Bronze Age archaeological culture in the Central Danube Carpathian Region.

This culture occurred in parallel with the Makó-Kosihy-Čaka cultural group. The period of its development covers the entire Early Bronze Age, from 2300/2200 BC to 1700/1600 BC (calibrated years). This culture occurs throughout most of Transdanubia, stretching beyond the Sava River in the south, encompassing a large part of Serbia and South Moravia, eastern Bosnia and Montenegro, reaching as far as the Adriatic coast. It was preceded by the Vučedol culture.{{cite book |url=http://www.ace.hu/curric/elte-archeometria/irodalom/Hungarian_archeology.pdf |title=Hungarian Archaeology at the Turn of the Millennium |chapter=The Early Bronze Age |editor-last=Visy |editor-first=Zsolt |publisher=Ministry of National Cultural Heritage |date=2003 |last1=Kulcsár |first1=Gabriella |pages=141 |isbn=9638629185 |quote=In the middle third of the 3rd millennium B.C., the former settlement centres were abandoned; their occupants continued their lives in smaller villages and hamlets. The Vučedol territory was gradually occupied by the Somogyvár–Vinkovci population, a culture blending various elements from the central and southern Balkans; closely allied groups also appeared in the Lower Danube region and Oltenia, as well as in Transylvania and the Körös region (Glina III–Schneckenberg and Gyula–Rosia group).}}

The end of this culture is not clear. According to N. Tasic, its decline would fall in the early stage of the development of the Encrusted Pottery culture and the Vatin culture. This is based on the presence of pottery typical of the population of the Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture in the inventories of the groups mentioned.{{cite journal|journal=Archeologia Jugoslavica|volume=IX|date=1968|title=Die Vinkovci-Kultur, eine neue Kultur der Frühbronzezeit in Syrmien und Slawonien|last1=Tasic|first1=N.}}