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Hungarian Archaeology at the turn of the Millennium

(Edited by ZSOLT VISY & MIHÁLY NAGY). Budapest 2003.

 

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TABLE of CONTENTS

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Commendation 7
Editors’ foreword 9
Lectori Salutem


I. ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN HUNGARY
Edited by MIHÁLY NAGY
The history of archaeological fieldwork in Hungary 15
Underwater archaeology 22
The emergence of underwater archaeology in Hungary 22
The conditions of underwater archaeology in Hungary 22
Underwater finds,underwater sites 22
Underwater excavations in Hungary 23
Opinions and counter-opinions 24
The future of underwater research 25
Aerial archaeology in Hungary 25
Urban archaeology: a special field of heritage protection 28
The nature of urban archaeology 29
Urban excavations and urban planning 30
The protection of the archaeological heritage in Hungary 31
Beginnings 31
The importance of the foundation of the Hungarian National Museum 31
The role of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 32
Legislation 33
The protection of the immovable heritage at present 35
International practice 35


II. MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
Edited by LÁSZLÓ BARTOSIEWICZ & ERZSÉBET JEREM
Environmental archaeology: the birth of a new discipline 39
Methods of environmental archaeology 39
Environmental archaeology in Hungary 42
The future of environmental archaeology–reconstructing and protecting the landscape 44
Dating methods 44
Relative chronology 44
Radiocarbon dating 46
Other dating methods 48
Dendrochronology and ancient forest cover 48
The principles of dating 48
Datingin practice 49
Archaeological examples 50
Forestry:a historical perspective 51
Future research directions 51
Palaeoenvironmetal history of Hungary 51
The mosaic patterning of the environment 51
Reindeer hunters of the late Ice Age 52
Mesolithic hunter-gatherers 53
Early food producing communities in the Neolithic 54
Consequences of the mosaic patterning of the environment 56
Hunted animals 56
The archaeological significance of hunting 56
Holocene mammals in Hungary 57
Hunted animals 57
Hunting booty as archaeological finds 59
Hunting in the post-medieval period 60
The archaeology of domestic animals 60
Why study the remains of domestic animals? 60
The first domestic animals 60
The beginnings of animal keeping in the Carpathian Basin 60
What can we learn from animal bones? 61
Equestrian burials 61
Bone working 62
Reconstructing nutritional history 62
Animal breeds 63
Remains of anexotic animal 63
New perspectives in the archaeological research of domestic animals 64
The archaeology of cultivated plants 64
The human population 67
Historical anthropology 67
Burials–Excavations 67
How does historical anthropology contribute to historical studies? 67
Historical demography 68
Health and disease in the past 68
Modifications caused by cultural tradition 70
What did they look like?–The reconstruction of facial features 70
Anthropological collections 71
Modern Age mummies 71
Exhumation and identification 71
Perspectives in historical anthropology 72
Appendix: the mammals of Hungary 73


III. THE PALAEOLITHIC AND MESOLITHIC
Edited by KATALIN T. BIRÓ
Introduction 77
Vértesszőlős: the first people in Hungary 78
The evolution and culture of modern man 81
The Middle Palaeolithic 81
The transition from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic 84
The early Upper Palaeolithic 84
Late glacial hunters 85
The Mesolithic: towards a production economy 91


IV. THE NEOLITHIC
Edited by KATALIN T. BIRÓ
Introduction: the beginnings of a production economy in Hungary 99
The history of the Neolithic 100
The Neolithic in the southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain 100
The Neolithic in the northernpart of the Great Hungarian Plain and the Northern Mountain Range 101
The Neolithic in Transdanubia up to the appearance of the Lengyel culture 102
The Late Neolithic in Transdanubia 102
Neolithic settlements 103
Füzesabony–Gubakút:a Neolithic settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain 103
Mosonszentmiklós–Egyéniföldek:a Neolithic village in Transdanubia 104
Hódmezővásárhely–Gorzsa:a Late Neolithic settlement in the Tisza region 106
Burial rites of the Neolithic 107
Neolithic burials in the Tisza region 108
Neolithic burial customs and burial rites in Transdanubia 110
Neolithic beliefs 112
Raw materials, mining and trade 117


V. THE COPPER AGE
Edited by ZSUZSNNA M. VIRÁG
History of the Copper Age 125
Settlements 127
Early metallurgy in the Carpathian Basin 129
Copper Age religion and beliefs 132


VI. THE BRONZE AGE
Edited by ERZSÉBET JEREM
Changes in the 3rd millennium B.C.: the dawn of a new period 141
The Early Bronze Age 141
Tell cultures of the Early and Middle Bronze Age 142
Tiszaug–Kéménytető: a Bronze Agesettlement in the Tiszazug 143
Burials around Nagyrév–Zsidóhalom 144
The expansion of the Hatvan culture 145
Jászdózsa–Kápolnahalom:a tell settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain 146
Cemeteries of the Hatvan culture 147
Central European economies: agriculturalists in Transdanubia 148
Potters in Transdanubia 150
Burials of the Encrusted Pottery culture 150
Fortified centres along the Danube 151
Dunaújváros–Dunadûlő: burials of the Vatya culture 155
The florescence of the Middle Bronze Age in the Tisza region: the Füzesabony culture 156
Cemeteries of the Füzesabony culture 157
The Middle Bronze Age population of the Berettyó–Körös region: the Gyulavarsánd culture 158
Túrkeve–Terehalom:a tell settlement in the Berettyó valley 158
Tell settlements in the Maros region 160
The Koszider period 161
The advent of a new period: the Late Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin 161
The Tumulus culture: invaders from the west 161
The expanding world:masters of bronzeworking in the Carpathian Basin 163
Bronze Age metallurgy 167
The emergence of Bronze Age metallurgy 167
Bronzeworking in the Middle Bronze Age 168
Gold metallurgy 169
The bronze industry of the Late Bronze Age 170
Late Bronze Age gold metallurgy 173


VII. THE IRON AGE
Edited by ERZSÉBET JEREM
The beginning of the Iron Age: the pre-Scythians 177
The Middle Iron Age: Scythians in the Tisza region 179
Burials 179
Settlement and economy 180
Horse harness and weapons 181
Animal style art 182
Pottery 182
The Early Iron Age in Transdanubia: the Hallstatt culture 183
New research results 183
Hillforts and fortified settlements 184
Burial mounds and religious beliefs 185
Inurned burials 187
Weapons, horse harness, costume: the finds from male burials 187
Female costume and jewellery 187
Masterpieces of the potter’scraft 188
Rural settlements 190
Crafts and industry 191
The Late Iron Age: the Celts of the La Tène period 192
New advances in the research of the Celts 192
History of the Celts 192
Celtic cemeteries and burial customs 193
Grave goods and costume 195
Settlement history 197
Masterpieces of Celtic craftsmanship 198
Religion 200
The Celtic site at Ménfőcsanak 200


VIII. THE ROMAN PERIOD
Edited by ZSOLT VISY
Historical outline of the Roman period 205
The nature of research 205
Pannonia 205
Roman administration in Pannonia 205
The change in lifeways 206
Pannonia’s role in the Roman Empire 207
Pannonia in Antiquity 207
Changes in the 4th century 208
Questions of survival 208
The border defence of Pannonia 208
Fortifications 209
Watchtowers 213
The limes road 215
Late Roman forts in Pannonia 215
Roman roads in Transdanubia 218
The towns of Pannonia 221
The early development of Pannonian towns 221
Religious life in Pannonian towns 223
Savaria 224
Scarbantia 226
Aquincum: the civilian town 227
Brigetio 229
Sopianae 230
Aqueducts and public utilities 231
Licence, design, execution 232
Operation and maintenance 234
Regional establishments linked to water 234
Recent research results 234
The subsequent fate of Roman aqueducts 234
Rural settlements in Pannonia 235
Villas 235
Roman villas north of Lake Balaton 238
Rural settlements in Pannonia 241
Crafts and industry 243
Quarries 244
Brick kilns 244
Lime kilns 245
Pottery kilns 245
Glass 246
Ironworking 246
Bronzeworking 247
Cult centres in Pannonia 247
Burials 251
Burial rites in the Roman period 252
Burials and settlement layout 255
Funerary memorials and monuments 256
Roman period tumuli in Transdanubia 257


IX. THE BARBARICUM IN THE ROMAN PERIOD
Edited by ANDREA VADAY
Historical overview 265
The peoples of the Barbaricum during the Roman period 267
The Sarmatians 267
The Celts 269
The Dacians 269
The Quadi 270
The Vandals 271
The archaeology of the Sarmatian territories 271
Burials 271
Settlements 275
The archaeology of the northern and northeastern fringes of the Sarmatian settlement territory 278
Research perspectives 280


X. THE MIGRATION PERIOD
Edited by TIVADAR VIDA
Cross-roads of peoples and cultures 283
The Huns 284
History of the Huns 284
History of research 285
Burials and society 286
The Sarmatians in the Hun period 287
The Romanized population in the 5th–6th centuries 289
Germans and Alans in Transdanubia in the 5th century 291
The Ostrogoths 291
The Suebians 293
Germanic peoples in the Great Hungarian Plain during the 5th century 293
The Gepids 294
History 294
History of research 295
Cemeteries and society 296
Settlements 297
The Langobards 298
History 298
History of research 299
Cemeteries and society 300
Settlements and subsistence 301
The early and middle Avar period 302
History 302
History of research 302
Cemeteries and society 304
The middle Avar period 306
Crafts, costume and implements 306
Settlements and subsistence 307
The Late Avar period 308
History 308
History of research 308
Cemeteries and society 309
Crafts 310
Settlements 311
The Carolingian period 312
History 312
History of research 313
Cemeteries 314
Settlements 314
Mosaburg/Zalavár 315


XI. THE CONQUEST PERIOD
Edited by LÁSZLÓ RÉVÉSZ
The archaeological research of the Conquest period 321
10th–11th century settlements 326
Earthen forts 328
Crafts 331
The art and religion of the ancient Hungarians 333
The cemeteries of the Conquest period 338


XII. THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE POST-MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Edited by JÓZSEF LASZLOVSZKY
Medieval archaeology in Hungary 347
Medieval royal centres 348
Székesfehérvár 350
Esztergom 352
th century royal castles 353
The royal palace of Buda 355
The Gothic sculptures of Buda Castle 358
Buda Palace at the end of the Middle Ages 358
Visegrád 359
The re-creation of the Renaissance in Visegrád 362
The archaeology of Hungary’s medieval towns 364
The archaeological investigation of medieval urban structure 365
Medieval urban parish churches and hospitals 367
Urban archaeology and written sources 367
Medieval market towns 368
Cathe drals, monasteries and churches: the archaeology of ecclesiastic monuments 372
Medieval monasteries 372
The Franciscan friary in Visegrád 375
Castles, forts and stockades – medieval and Ottoman period military architecture 377
Minor castles 377
Royal castles in the later Middle Ages 378
Military architecture in Hungary during the Ottoman period 380
Palisaded forts in Hungary during the Ottoman period 381
Medieval villages and their fields 383
The structure of Árpádian Age rural settlements 384
A ‘buried landscape’: Árpádian Age settlement history in the Danube–Tisza interfluve 385
Village parish churches 385
The reconstruction of a medieval dwelling 386
Ethnic groups and cultures in medieval Hungary 388
Eastern ethnic groups in medieval Hungary 388
The archaeological legacy of the Pecheneg and Cumanian aristocracy 389
From aul to village: Cumanian and Jazygian settlements 391
Cumanian and Jazygian cemeteries 393
Ethnic groups in the towns of medieval Hungary 394
Jews and urbanization 395
Medieval material culture – medieval archaeology 397
Stoves with a story and artistic cups: late medieval pottery 398
The stove from the era of King Louis the Great in Visegrád 399
Gothic stoves and their influence on folk stoves 400
The Matthias period tiled stove from Visegrád Palace 401
“The more often a pitcher goes to the well…” 403
Ottoman period archaeology – post-medieval archaeology 405
The archaeology of the Ottoman period 405
Turkish material culture 409
The florescence and decline of villages 411
Hungarian material culture in the Ottoman period 412
An enigmatic settlement type: hamlets and farmsteads 413


XIII. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS
Edited by KATALIN VOLLÁK
Academicians in archaeology 415
Archaeological collections and museums 417
From King Matthias’s collection of antiquities to the Hungarian National Museum and specialized collections 417
The changing tasks of archaeological museums from the iremergence in the late 19th century until today 419
Excavations: from treasure hunting to motorway archaeology 419
Archaeological education and research at the universities 421
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 421
Department of Archaeology, József Attila University, Szeged 423
Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs 425
Department of Prehistory and Ancient History, Miskolc University 425
Department of History, Berzsenyi Dániel College, Szombathely 425
Archaeology and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 426
Research policy and publications 426
Academic classification 426
Membership in the Academy 426
Publicbody 427
The Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 427
Listed archaeological sites – volunteers and amateurs in archaeology 428
Registration and databases 430
The conservation and exhibition of archaeological remains: archaeological parksand experimental archaeology 432
Hungarian archaeological sites on the World Heritage List 435
The integration of historic monument preservation into heritage projects 437
Index of sites 441
Select bibliography 451
List of illustrations 473
Chronological charts 483

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