Horváth Attila – H. Tóth Elvira szerk.: Cumania 4. Archeologia (Bács-Kiskun Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei, Kecskemét, 1976)

Korek J.: Előszó

tic find assemblages has created a qualitatively new possibility to evaluations of historical claims. And a proof for the success of the flourishing research is that the archeological papers published in CUMANIA disregarding those which deal with the summary of certain historical problems, describe recently excavated finds. The first volume was based on finds which came to the light between 1958 and 1971, and even the re-eValuation of earlier finds was connected with new excavations (Felsőszentkirály) in order to incease their value as source materials. These tendencies are similar also in this volume. The third fact is that the possibility afforded by the County Council on a large scale has been equal to expectations, and CUMANIA has become not only the organ of the papers written by the members of the museum organization of the county bot also the forum of the complex studies on materials coming from the county. Besides the freshness the complexity and the assertion of the interdisciplinary studies are such traits which secure the possibility of the more integrated evaluation.Particularly historical anthropology and paleozoology have become organic parts of the almanac which gives the most if the results of the different disciplines are published together as the case of the grave from the Period of the Hungarian Conquest found at Izsák-Balázspuszta clearly shows. The publication of medieval written sources of the region in Hungarian translation also would serv the effort to complexity. With this the almanac gives a good change to the wider public to learn more about local history and to learn respect from the work of the forebears as the Preface of the historical volume formulated. We believe that also this volume will serve the connection of the archaeological research with the Hungarian and international professional literature and more and more people will read its articles on the early history accessible only by archaeological metthods of their homeland. Dr. József Korek 10