AT THE MEETING POINT OF INFLUENCES: FINAL PALAEOLITHIC AND EARLY MESOLITHIC IN HUNGARY
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2021-03-29

Due  to  its  geographical  context,  the  Middle  Danube  basin  or  Carpathian  basin  is  a  meeting  point  of  climatic,  biogeographical,  as well as cultural areas. Crossing the basin the Danube River links together the Balkans and Central Europe providing a north-west southeast migration route for animal and human populations. On the other hand, the basin is connected with the northern and eastern plains by mountainous passes and river valleys across the Carpathians. The environmental conditions of the basin developed under the effects of three climatic belts: oceanic from the west, continental from the east, submediterranean from the south. The archaeological record of Hungarian sites, dated to the period of the Final Pleistocene and Early Holocene, demon-strates  cultural  influences  coming  from  these  directions  too.  We  deal  with  this  problem  by  ivestigating  four  excavated  sites  representing different regions within the basin: Szekszárd-Palánk (south) and Sződliget (north) in the Danube valley, Páli-Dombok (northwest) in the Rába valley, Jászberény (northeast) in the Zagyva valley. Szekszárd and Páli are dated to the Final Pleistocene, Sződliget  and  Jászberény  to  the  Early  Holocene.  The  environmental  context,  lithic  typology  and  technology  and  raw  material economy are considered using the results of new analyses as well as the revision of published analytical data. The “Lithic resource management dynamics from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Middle Neolithic in northern Hungary” project is financed by the NRDI Fund (grant no. K124334).


Author(s):  Faragó,  Norbert  -  Mester,  Zsolt  -  Király,  Attila  (Institute  of  Archaeological  Sciences,  Eötvös  Loránd  University)  -  Kertész, Róbert (Damjanich János Museum) - Péntek, Attila (-) - Kraus, Dávid (Budapest Historical Museum Aquincum Museum and  Archaeological  Park)  -  Szegedi,  Kristóf  István  (Várkapitányság  Integrált  Területfejlesztési  Központ  Nonprofit  Zrt.)  -  No-vothny, Ágnes - Magyari, Enikő (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University)