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ARKAD 109 Beside the pottery, the finds from this Middle Neolithic settlement included other artefacts such as clav bracelets fragments, bone awls, a perforated clay pendant and a table-like artefact (Fig. 6. 7-8, Fig. 15. 4-5). All of these are known from other Alföld Linear Pottery sites too. Conclusion In sum, we may state that the Neolithic pottery shares many features with the Körös pottery (such as deeply incised lines, low and solid vessel pedestals, as well as biconical pot, the rather frequent occurrence of "beaded" painting). Still, the overwhelming majority of the ceramic finds can be linked to the Alföld Linear Pottery types as shown by the high footed vessels, the wide mouthed bowls, the flasks, the flat plates, the incised linear patterns of one or two deeply incised lines and the patterns of painted bands etc.). According to current research, these typological features and decorative patterns are typical of the early ALP.

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2 The finds also included a few Bükk types and Szamos Painted Pottery. There is no convincing explanation for their presence as yet (when and why got the Tiszalúc settlement?). One thing is sure tliese pottery sherds differ markedly from the early ALP types. Recent studies have labelled ceramics that are similar to the finds recovered at Tiszalúc as heritage of the Szatmár group or the 1. phase of ALP.

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3 Widely accepted that the emergence of the culture is generally located to the Upper Tisza region. In contrast, it has been suggested that the ALP may have evolved not in the Upper Tisza region, but "im different region" and "on a different basis", as well as. ALP formations were at first traced back to the Mesolithic and the Neolithic, but more recent works have shown that the culture can be derived from the Early Neolithic.

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3 It is now believed that the Alföld Linear Pottery evolved under the influence and expansion of the two (Transylvanian and Alföld) variants of the Körös culture.

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6 The formation process can be traced through the occurence of mixed assemblages containing both Körös and ALP types.

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7 The findings of more recent investigations in the Upper Tisza region play an important role, since they offer a more systematic approach to the problem of origins and early development of ALP.

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8 In the past studies over-attention devoted to the typological and chronological analyses. We are now in a position to gain a better understanding the whole development of the culture (settlement patterns, economic bases, connections with neighbouring areas etc.).

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2 Raczky 1988, 27-28. 1

5 Kalicz-Makkay 1977, 18-29; Makkay 1982, 68-74; Racûy 1988, 28; Idem 1989, 233-251; KaliczKoós 1997, 20-32. 1

4 Kalicz-Makkay 1977, 18-20; Raczky 1986, 38-40; Bona 1986, 65-67. 1

5 Kalicz-Makkay 1977, 18-20; Raczky 1986, 38-40; Kalicz-Koós 1997, 32. 11

1 Raczky 1988, 27-30. 1

7 Arguments based on these assemblages are, from a methodological point of view, rather one-sided since the joint or mixed occurrence of different pottery types is in itself insufficient for proving origins. 1

8 Kurucz 1994, 125-138; Domboróczki 1997, 19-25; Kalicz-Koós 1997,28-32. 1

9 In this study I have chosen a typological approach since the scope of this breaf paper was not siutable for the detailed discussion. In view of the nature and extant of the excavations I considered my most important task a description of the settlement finds.