By the way, if you use Google translate for this interesting paper, you can find something about the burial customs of Lăpuș II, which was at the core of Gava.
https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576 0x002debec.pdf
It was an elite which controlled the mining of ores and production of metal goods, especially weapons. A large portion of the population was not buried, but the elite was buried in huge tumuli of, in part, exceptional size for the time. Channelled Ware appears there from 14th, safely the 13th century, so much earlier than in the Balkans. The early Gava-related cultural formations in the region being closely connected to the Transcarpathian region of the Ukraine and Eastern Slovakia, of Hungary its only the very North Eastern part which being related at that time, but this changes once they start to expand Southward and Eastward. Intriguingly, they don't really expand big time, only fuse and influence a bit, into the territory of related Urnfield groups to the North and West, like Lusatians and Middle Danubians. Probably both because they had not the same advantages, leverage and were all part of the same religious-cultural wider network of the Urnfield system.
The Gava-people primarily expanded South and East, that's where they headed once the core was finally formed and homogenised from different local influences and small groups. I'd assume that a specific tribe had taken over, homogenising the region, and then started to expand outward. An ideal scenario for a paternal lineage spread and replacement.
It might help to stress the speed of the expansion, once it started:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...hronology_of_the_Gava_culture_in_Transylvania
They appeared at roughly the same time in Southern Transylvania and at the Danube and in both regions, unlike the core area to the North, there is no regional continuous development towards Gava/Channelled Ware. These are massive changes, with grande scale expansions and replacements taking place in just about 100-150 years. Like I said before, in some cases the grandfather which settled in Serbia, Greece or Bulgaria, could still tell his grandchildren about the homeland in the North, that was the speed of the expansion, within just a couple of generations.
Almost all the main splits of E-V13 fall in the same time span: 1.300-900 BC. The rest happened in the Hallstatt, after that, the macro-regions of Europe show only limited overlap in their TMRCAs, mainly attributable to historically known migrations and individual migrants in the historical period. That's hardly a coincidene, that the main branching events and expansions of E-V13 date exactly, really exactly, to the main expansion and branching events of Gava/Channelled Ware. Actually it can't be, since E-V13 was simply not there in many regions we have proof of its abundant existence just some generations later, AFTER Channelled Ware.
https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576 0x002debec.pdf
It was an elite which controlled the mining of ores and production of metal goods, especially weapons. A large portion of the population was not buried, but the elite was buried in huge tumuli of, in part, exceptional size for the time. Channelled Ware appears there from 14th, safely the 13th century, so much earlier than in the Balkans. The early Gava-related cultural formations in the region being closely connected to the Transcarpathian region of the Ukraine and Eastern Slovakia, of Hungary its only the very North Eastern part which being related at that time, but this changes once they start to expand Southward and Eastward. Intriguingly, they don't really expand big time, only fuse and influence a bit, into the territory of related Urnfield groups to the North and West, like Lusatians and Middle Danubians. Probably both because they had not the same advantages, leverage and were all part of the same religious-cultural wider network of the Urnfield system.
The Gava-people primarily expanded South and East, that's where they headed once the core was finally formed and homogenised from different local influences and small groups. I'd assume that a specific tribe had taken over, homogenising the region, and then started to expand outward. An ideal scenario for a paternal lineage spread and replacement.
It might help to stress the speed of the expansion, once it started:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...hronology_of_the_Gava_culture_in_Transylvania
They appeared at roughly the same time in Southern Transylvania and at the Danube and in both regions, unlike the core area to the North, there is no regional continuous development towards Gava/Channelled Ware. These are massive changes, with grande scale expansions and replacements taking place in just about 100-150 years. Like I said before, in some cases the grandfather which settled in Serbia, Greece or Bulgaria, could still tell his grandchildren about the homeland in the North, that was the speed of the expansion, within just a couple of generations.
Almost all the main splits of E-V13 fall in the same time span: 1.300-900 BC. The rest happened in the Hallstatt, after that, the macro-regions of Europe show only limited overlap in their TMRCAs, mainly attributable to historically known migrations and individual migrants in the historical period. That's hardly a coincidene, that the main branching events and expansions of E-V13 date exactly, really exactly, to the main expansion and branching events of Gava/Channelled Ware. Actually it can't be, since E-V13 was simply not there in many regions we have proof of its abundant existence just some generations later, AFTER Channelled Ware.