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Re-Evaluation of the Neolithic in Eastern Hungary Based on Calibrated Radiocarbon Dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Ede Hertelendi ,
Nándor Kalicz ,
Pál Raczky ,
Ferenc Horváth ,
Mihály Veres ,
Éva Svingor ,
István Futó  and
László Bartosiewicz
Ede Hertelendi
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, POB 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
Nándor Kalicz
Affiliation:
Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, úri utca 49, H-1250 Budapest, Hungary
Pál Raczky
Affiliation:
Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Archaeology, POB 107, H-1364 Budapest, Hungary
Ferenc Horváth
Affiliation:
Móra Ferenc Múzeum, Roosevelt tér 1–3, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
Mihály Veres
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, POB 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
Éva Svingor
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, POB 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
István Futó
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, POB 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
László Bartosiewicz
Affiliation:
Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, úri utca 49, H-1250 Budapest, Hungary
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The chief objective of this paper is to improve our understanding of the Neolithic in Eastern Hungary using absolute chronological data. To accomplish this we calibrated new measurements as well as previously published dates. The up-to-date, standardized evaluation of 261 calibrated measurements showed temporal overlaps between archaeological cultures defined on the basis of ceramic styles. The increasing number of dates suggest that the Neolithic period began at the turn of the 6th and 7th millennia bc and lasted for ca. 1500 yr in the present area of the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld). Further research should be aimed at complementing the current data set with dates from western Hungary and establishing additional correlations among stratigraphic, typological and radiocarbon dates.

Type
II. 14C in Archaeology
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 239 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © the Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona 

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