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The growing interest in the cultural dimensions and environmental
aspects of the transition to the Neolithic in the 6th millennium BC
calls for a brief overview of what we know about the Early
Neolithic in the Danube-Tisza interfluve. The idea of a volume
drawing together the various strands of evidence on the Early
Neolithic in this region resulted in the multi-facetted analysis
presented in this volume. One major advance emanating from the
study was the elimination of the archaeological blank spot between
the Alfold and Transdanubia - earlier, the very existence of this
blank spot made any discussion of possible contact between the two
thoroughly researched regions virtually impossible and hampered
comparisons of any kind."
In 1957, preliminary investigations revealed a major Late Neolithic
settlement mound, which also happened to be the northernmost tell
settlement on the Great Hungarian Plain. Although the trial was
limited to a small trench, the several meters thick deposits
yielded exciting finds and several richly furnished burials. The
brief preliminary report and the various references to the
excavation made it quite obvious that the tell was one of the key
sites of the Hungarian Neolithic and thus the full publication of
the tell and its finds was, quite understandably, eagerly awaited
by prehistorians. Investigations resumed in 1989 as part of the
excavations preceding the construction of the M3 motorway. This
excavation was preceded by various geophysical surveys and
palaeoenvironmental sampling in order to reconstruct the
settlement's one-time environment and to determine the exact date
of its occupation. However, until the results of the new excavation
are published in detail, this monograph will be the single
available study on the Polgar-Csoszhalom site, the eponymous site
of a Late Neolithic culture."
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