Timing the Difference: New Radiocarbon Dates for Late Neolithic Sites across the Great Hungarian Plain

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the past six years, the Prehistoric Interactions on the Plain Project has worked to reconstruct multi-scalar patterns of engagement between Late Neolithic (5000-4500 BC) Tisza and Herpály cultural units on the Great Hungarian Plain. By conducting multiple types of analyses on ceramics and chipped-stone tools, it has been possible to model a strongly enforced socio-cultural boundary during this time. However, what remains unclear is the chronological sequence in which these regional cultural developments occurred. Therefore, in an effort to begin building a stronger chronology for the region we conducted radiocarbon analysis of twelve samples from one Tisza site, Szeghalom-Kovácshalom, and two Herpály sites, Esztár-Fenyvespart and Szeghalom-Várhely. This paper presents our initial findings and contextualizes the results within the broader macro-region.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25151