Körös culture settlement, subsistence and environment: investigations of the Early Neolithic Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, Co. Békés, Hungary
Alasdair Whittle, 2008. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000068. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
This project, principally funded by The British Academy and The Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from 1998-2001. It aimed to obtain new information on the settlement, subsistence and environment of the Early Neolithic Körös culture (c. 6000-5500 cal BC) on the Great Hungarian Plain, a key area for understanding the nature of the spread of Neolithic practices across Europe as a whole. Its objectives were to locate a settlement close to contemporary deposits with palaeoenvironmental evidence, to excavate a portion of such a site with fine recovery methods, especially for food residues and samples for micromorphology and radiocarbon dating, and to date such a site as closely as possible. The site is now published. Finds and notebooks will be deposited in the county museum in Békéscsaba.
The dataset deposited comes from the excavations in 1999-2001 at Ecsegfalva. Apart from a small sondage at Ecsegfalva 18, these consisted of areas within Ecsegfalva 23: A, B and C. Since fine stratigraphic control was a principal objective of the project, we used a context system for recording what proved to be complex deposits. The areas were dug in small individual units, and many context numbers were used. A simplified version is given in the published report. The files available here give details of all the contexts used, and their principal relationships as set out in simple Harris matrices.
Associated Publication:
Whittle, A (ed.) 2007. The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain: investigations of the early Neolithic Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, Co. Békés. (Varia Archaeologica Hungarica 21.) Budapest: Institute of Archaeology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978 963 7391 90 3
