Pásztor Emília (szerk.): A fény régészete. A természetes fény szerepe az őskori ember életében - Bajai dolgozatok 20. (Baja, 2017)
P. Barna Judit: Fény a körben. A természetes fény és Közép-Európa legrégebbi monumentális építménye
ditches and the gates built over the bridges. The rondels separate from the inhabited parts of the settlements both physically and functionally. There are no settlement features in the inner space of the rondels apart from rare exceptions. The rondels are characteristic phenomena of a unified cultural and time horizon (Kalicz 1998, Petrasch 1990, Trnka 1991, 2005; Daim-Neubauer 2005; Bertemes- Meller 2012, stb.). Though a direct connection cannot be presumed between the henge monuments of England and the Central-European rondels, due to large temporal, geographical, and cultural distance, several shared characteristics are conspicuous such as ground-plan, astronomical orientation, supposed former function. Monumentality and the intention of encircling a place and excluding members of the community are typical in both cases which must be in connection with the former function. A recent, large-scale archaeological proposal, the so-called "The Stonehenge Riverside project" (Parker Pearson et. al. 2004, 2006) revealed that the monumental structure of Stonehenge was not a strayed phenomenon erected solely in the landscape. Together with several further wooden, stone and earthen monuments it functioned as an accentuated scene of an extended and complex ritual area stretching along the River 6. Szoborfej töredék, Sormás-Török-földek. (TGYM) Head fragment of a figurine, Sormás-Török-földek. (TGYM) Avon during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Some of the structures were oriented towards the summer and winter solstices. According to the latest Hungarian research evidence for a similarly complex use of space in the Neolithic of Hungary can be detected at Polgár-Csőszhalom, a sitecomplex where two circular ditch systems were explored (Raczky et al. 1994, 2014). According to the former function of the rondels several theories have been provided. Pros and cons can also be reasoned in relation to most of them. The huge, supra-cultural range and large number of the sites with encircled places all over Europe exclude the possibility to assume a unique, well-definable function behind this variability 27 í I
