Troy, Baden Culture and Corded Ware 261 Raiko Krauß 1 The 4 th millennium BC in many ways is a time of change in southeastern Europe. After the discontinuation of tell-settlements in the Carpathian Basin and the eastern Balkan area one can see the formation of archaeologically economy. Simultaneously, burial rites show a tradition whose roots lie as far back as the 5 th millennium BC. Against the background of the changing settlement pattern, the transfer of technical innovations over wide areas of Europe is also noticeable – such as the use of the wheel and wagon, as well as a generally increased use of animal labour. Compared to the 5 th monopoly leadership in the production and use of metals. At the end of the 4 th millennium, interrelated cultural groups Age culture. On the basis of new radiocarbon dates from a late Baden settlement in the west of present-day Romania, Aegean and the Final Neolithic in central Europe will be discussed. - 2 The chronomet- ric dating revolution, facilitated by calibrated radiocarbon dating, made this acknowledgment directly connect the two occurrences. Chronologically, the ‘Baden’ phenomenon occurs before Corded 3 geographically, it is lo- between the two areas. 4 A short time after, calibrated radiocarbon dates revealed that Baden 5 The thesis that the Baden phenomenon emerged from the migra- tion of populations from northwestern Anatolia 6 was thus fundamentally refuted. This resulted is now time for a renewed discussion concerning these relationships. A small, 15m 2 - th and 1 Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Mediaeval Archaeology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany; email: raiko.krauss@uni-tuebingen.de. 2 Korfmann – Kromer 1993; Furholt 2003; Kromer et al. 2003. 3 Stadler et al. 2001. 4 5 6