A chronology of generations? A site-based study from the 6-5th Mill. settlement and cemetery of Alsónyék, South Western Hungary

Summary

The Alsónyék Neolithic site was found in the course of a motorway project. The earliest occupants were the first farmers arriving from the North Balkans. After a short gap two later Neolithic occupations were followed by an immense settlement and cemetery of the Lengyel culture: 120 robust houses and in sum 2400 burials could be excavated alone on the motorway track, and this size, completed with geomagnetic surveys, is left without any parallels in Central European Neolithic. In this key area, where our team tries to proceed with the archaeological, osteological and environmental analyses, the relative dating has been completed with the help more than two hundred radiocarbon samples, evaluated with the Bayesian statistical method. The comparison of the complex investigations allow us to define a series of micro-narratives about the lifetime of the 6.- and 5. Millennium occupations, in order to attempt to combine them into a long-term history of Neolithic at the southern margins of Central Europe.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• The short and the long of it: combining timescales

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