TY - CHAP AU - Mester, Zsolt AU - Lamotte, Agnès ED - Uthmeier, Thorsten ED - Maier, Andreas TI - New insights into the Middle Palaeolithic Bábonyian industry at the eponymous site, Sajóbábony-Méhész-tető (Hungary) T2 - STONE AGE. Studying Technologies of Non-analogous Environments and Glacial Ecosystems PB - Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH CY - Bonn SN - 9783774944275 T3 - Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie ; 396. PY - 2024 SP - 197 EP - 214 PG - 18 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34832299 ID - 34832299 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gnecchi-Ruscone, Guido Alberto AU - Rácz, Zsófia AU - Samu, Levente AU - Szeniczey, Tamás AU - Faragó, Norbert AU - Knipper, Corina AU - Friedrich, Ronny AU - Zlámalová, Denisa AU - Traverso, Luca AU - Liccardo, Salvatore AU - Wabnitz, Sandra AU - Popli, Divyaratan AU - Wang, Ke AU - Radzeviciute, Rita AU - Gulyás, Bence AU - Koncz, István AU - Balogh, Csilla AU - Lezsák, Gabriella M. AU - Mácsai, Viktor AU - Bunbury, Magdalena M. E. AU - Spekker, Olga AU - le Roux, Petrus AU - Szécsényi-Nagy, Anna AU - Mende, Balázs Gusztáv AU - Colleran, Heidi AU - Hajdu, Tamás AU - Geary, Patrick AU - Pohl, Walter AU - Vida, Tivadar AU - Krause, Johannes AU - Hofmanová, Zuzana TI - Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities JF - NATURE J2 - NATURE PY - 2024 PG - 25 SN - 0028-0836 DO - 10.1038/s41586-024-07312-4 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34822257 ID - 34822257 AB - From ad 567–568, at the onset of the Avar period, populations from the Eurasian Steppe settled in the Carpathian Basin for approximately 250 years 1 . Extensive sampling for archaeogenomics (424 individuals) and isotopes, combined with archaeological, anthropological and historical contextualization of four Avar-period cemeteries, allowed for a detailed description of the genomic structure of these communities and their kinship and social practices. We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations. These kinship practices correspond with previous evidence from historical sources and anthropological research on Eurasian Steppe societies 2 . Network analyses of identity-by-descent DNA connections suggest that social cohesion between communities was maintained via female exogamy. Finally, despite the absence of major ancestry shifts, the level of resolution of our analyses allowed us to detect genetic discontinuity caused by the replacement of a community at one of the sites. This was paralleled with changes in the archaeological record and was probably a result of local political realignment. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Gutay, Mónika AU - Mester, Zsolt ED - Sandra, Sázelová TI - A new Middle Paleolithic assemblage from Gyöngyöstarján, Northern Hungary T2 - Solving Stone Age puzzles: From artefacts and sites towards archaeological interpretations PB - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology CY - Brno SN - 9788075240804 PY - 2024 SP - 97 EP - 107 PG - 11 DO - 10.47382/dvs_26-07 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34819732 ID - 34819732 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Magyari, Enikő Katalin AU - Raczky, Pál AU - Merkl, Máté AU - Pálfi, Ivett AU - Darabos, Gabriella AU - Hajnalova, M AU - Moskal-Hoyo, M TI - Review on vegetation, landscape and climate changes in the Carpathian Basin during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic period JF - VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY J2 - VEG HIST ARCHAEOBOT PY - 2024 SN - 0939-6314 DO - 10.1007/s00334-024-00986-w UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34568108 ID - 34568108 N1 - ELKH-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Palaeontology, Ludovika Tér 2, Budapest, 1083, Hungary Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Stny 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Múzeum Krt. 4/B, Budapest, 1088, Hungary AB - The Neolithic and Copper Age (CA) of Hungary (6000–2800 cal bc ) represents a meticulous construction of settlement structure, material culture, arable farming and herding techniques with at least one, but likely several reappearing population movements that brought in innovations and possibly contributed to the societal changes in this period. The last couple of decades witnessed a considerable progress in the study of concurrent vegetation, climate and landscape management changes particularly via the increased number of high-resolution pollen records, archaeobotanical and archaeological investigations, coupled with stable isotope analyses of the charred cereal assemblages. In this review we synthetize the results of these research projects and demonstrate that the Neolithic and CA landscapes of Hungary were characterised by mixed oak forest communities, and in the territory of Hungary thermophilous steppe oak forests were present in the lowland landscape that were the principal choice of early farmers represented by the Körös-Starčevo-Criş cultures. Climate modelling and climate reconstruction from these regions indicate higher than preindustrial summer mean temperatures and higher than modern summer rainfall. We demonstrate that Linear Pottery Culture was the first culture that technologically advanced to clear larger plots of land for crop cultivation purposes. The first large scale and landscape level clearance is discernible in the Hungarian pollen records in the Late Neolithic period, when population size likely reached its Neolithic maximum, both in the lowlands and the surrounding mid-mountains. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Mester, Zsolt AU - Coqueugniot, Hélène AU - Tillier, Anne-Marie AU - Rosendahl, Wilfried AU - Friedrich, Ronny AU - Zink, Albert AU - Maixner, Frank AU - Dutour, Olivier AU - Bereczki, Zsolt AU - Gasparik, Mihály AU - Pap, Ildikó AU - Pálfi, György TI - First direct dating of the Late Neanderthal remains from Subalyuk Cave in Northern Hungary JF - ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER J2 - ANTHROPOL ANZ VL - 81 PY - 2024 IS - 2 SP - 169 EP - 181 PG - 13 SN - 0003-5548 DO - 10.1127/anthranz/2023/1716 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34139989 ID - 34139989 AB - The Subalyuk hominin remains were uncovered in 1932 in a cave of the same name in the Bükk Mountains, near the village of Cserépfalu in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Northern Hungary. The remains represent two individuals, an adult and a young child who have been described in a few publications since their discovery, providing substantial anthropological data and general assessments of their Neanderthal affiliation. They were associated with Late Mousterian industry. Thus, the Bükk Mountains gain importance in the discussion concerning the contribution of East Central European sites to the debate on the peopling history of Europe during the Late Middle to Early Upper Palaeolithic transition. In this paper, we summarize the archaeological and chronological context of the two individuals, and publish the first direct dating results that place them among the Last Neanderthals of Central Europe. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szabó, Gábor AU - Mogyorós, Péter AU - Bíró, Péter AU - Kovács, András AU - Tankó, Károly AU - Urbán, Dániel AU - Barcsi, Marcell TI - Investigations of an Early Iron Age Siege 2. Preliminary report on the archaeological research carried out at Dédestapolcsány-Verebce-bérc and Dédestapolcsány-Várerdő between September 2022 and the end of 2023 TS - Preliminary report on the archaeological research carried out at Dédestapolcsány-Verebce-bérc and Dédestapolcsány-Várerdő between September 2022 and the end of 2023 JF - DISSERTATIONES ARCHAEOLOGICAE J2 - DISSARCH VL - Ser. 3 PY - 2023 IS - 11 SP - 603 EP - 623 PG - 21 SN - 2064-4574 DO - 10.17204/dissarch.2023.603 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34756882 ID - 34756882 AB - A research team of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University continued the fieldwork between 1 September 2022 and 31 December 2023 on two Early and Middle Iron Age sites, Dédestapolcsány-Verebce-bérc and Dédestapolcsány-Várerdő, in the frame of a project investigating Early Iron Age crises. New excavation trenches were opened at the fortified settlement in the north of the Bükk Mountains (Northern Hungary). One was an extension of a trench opened in 2022, where remains of a burnt house had been identified. Metal detector surveys recovered some new fascinating stray metal finds (e.g., an akinakes, battle axes, and the bronze protective sheath of a sword) and new assemblages (iron tool deposits and a hoard of gold jewellery and amber beads). Eleven more graves were excavated in the cemetery (Várerdő) north of the coeval settlement. The most interesting grave was the burial of an adult man with rich grave goods such as an ironworking toolkit, pottery, and other items. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szenthe, Gergely Pál AU - Faragó, Norbert AU - Gáll, Erwin TI - Chronological problems of the 7th–10th-century AD Carpathian Basin in light of radiocarbon data JF - DISSERTATIONES ARCHAEOLOGICAE J2 - DISSARCH VL - Ser. 3 PY - 2023 IS - 11 SP - 443 EP - 492 PG - 50 SN - 2064-4574 DO - 10.17204/dissarch.2023.443 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34756872 ID - 34756872 AB - The study presents the evaluation of a radiocarbon series, currently unparalleled in the research of the early medieval Carpathian Basin, which comprises data from the 7th to the 10th century AD. We provide a data set that, when combined with the radiocarbon data available in the related literature, covers the period in focus. The results of its analysis can be considered novel in several respects: 1) the radiocarbon data sequence and the relative chronological framework established for the Late Avar Period concord, 2) based on the radiocarbon sequence, the Middle Avar Period in certain large cemeteries (i.e., Tiszafüred-Majoros) started considerably earlier than it was assumed previously, based on ‘Middle Avar Period’ elite graves—and, interestingly, earlier even than the coin-dated ‘Middle Avar’ elite grave horizon, and 3) the data of the latest grave horizon in Avar cemeteries suggests a similar asynchronism between the related sites. The data set allows one to draw preliminary conclusions about the trends of the early medieval cultural and social transformations in the Carpathian Basin and outline ‘innovative’ groups which, by maintaining contacts with diverse regions outside the Carpathian Basin, played a central role in these processes. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Péntek, Attila AU - Faragó, Norbert TI - Obsidian-tipped Spears from the Admiralty Islands in the Oceania Collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest JF - DISSERTATIONES ARCHAEOLOGICAE J2 - DISSARCH VL - Ser. 3 PY - 2023 IS - 11 SP - 5 EP - 32 PG - 28 SN - 2064-4574 DO - 10.17204/dissarch.2023.5 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34756750 ID - 34756750 AB - The authors studied 36 obsidian-tipped spears in the Oceania collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. In addition to describing the objects from the Admiralty Islands collected before 1897, the paper provides a summary of the related ethnographic information, including the technological and technical details of spear point making and the characterisation of the obsidian raw material used.The blades used for making the obsidian points presented in this study showed no sign of standardisation (an indicator of advanced blade technology) in the spear point-making process. According to 19th-century ethnographic sources, the functional part of the points was the most important, and much time and effort were invested in ensuring that the blades were effective weapons. Later, as a sign of decline, primary production of obsidian blades ceased, and manufacturers started scavenging old artefacts and utilising waste and by-products. As a result, the blades decreased in size and became more irregular, and an increasingly large number included parts of the cortex, the crust of obsidian. After 1911, the relative importance of decoration increased, and the type became more standardised.The irregular shape of the spear points presented in the study and the thin, weak shafts with an awkward curvature raise questions about whether the spears were actual weapons. At the same time, the artistic decoration of the mounting sockets and ethnographic parallels suggest that the pieces in the collection were likely status objects instead. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szabó, Gábor TI - Recenzió: János Gábor Tarbay: Twin Hoards – Metals and Deposition in the Buda Hills, the Pilis and the Visegrád Mountains during the Late Bronze Age. Archaeologica Hungarica 52, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2022. JF - MAGYAR RÉGÉSZET J2 - MAGY RÉGÉSZ VL - 12 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SN - 2416-0288 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34742932 ID - 34742932 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Mester, Zsolt AU - Király, Attila AU - Hajdu, Tamás TI - Neanderthals and early homo sapiens in the Middle East. COST iNEAL Working Groups meeting and Training School in Haifa TS - COST iNEAL Working Groups meeting and Training School in Haifa JF - HUNGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY J2 - HUNG ARCHAEOL VL - 12 PY - 2023 IS - 2 SP - 67 EP - 69 PG - 3 SN - 2416-0296 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34742910 ID - 34742910 LA - English DB - MTMT ER -