Tiszaug-Railway-station: An archaic Middle Neolithic community on the Great Hungarian Plain
Tiszaug-Railway-station: An archaic Middle Neolithic community on the Great Hungarian Plain

Summary/Abstract: The Tiszazug landscape lies in the heartland of the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld) in the middle of the Carpathian Basin. The region enclosed by the Tisza and Körös rivers has a diverse geography. The Tiszaug-Railway-Station site was identified as representing the Middle Neolithic ALP-Szakálhát assemblages in the first publication of the site and its finds. During the 1980 floods, the railway embankment at the western edge ofthe site was damaged and was reconstructed with earth extracted from the archaeological site. The extractiondisturbed a 100 by 50 m large area with Neolithic features, leading to a salvage excavation in May 1980, duringwhich parts of seven archaeological features preserved in the north-eastern wall of the mine pit were uncovered.Particular attention was accorded to the chronology and cultural connections of the finds already in the first publication. Besides the discussion of the face pots, the blend of Szakálhát and late ALP elements in the ceramicinventory was duly noted. The re-assessment and re-publication of the finds was necessitated by the new absolute chronological dates: the radical change in the site’s chronological position sets the formerly known contexts of the pottery and other artefact types (lithics and special clay objects) into a wholly new contextual framework.

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