A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 1. (Békéscsaba, 1971)

Introducing our Publications

research. It will fill its function and justify its existence if it is able to comply with local requirements and scientific demands alike, that is if by its efforts it will be able to serve the purpose of making local values public property, serve the expansion of knowledge by making people better acquainted with their homeland proper and if, at the same time, it is able to contribute, by making known the research work of the museums within the area of the county, to the national or, from time to time, to the universal museological scientific achievements. It is not easy to meet this level of requirements but, at the same time, it also sustains the double demand that the series of publications must take into account the interest of local readers, of the researchers of the several branches of science, and of foreign museology alike. It appears as favourable in this respect that in the activity of the organisation of the museums underta ings have ceme into the foreground - such as the organisation of a complex, permanent exhibition giving a picture of the past and life of the nationalities living in the county, or the archeological topographical operations going on in the county under the guidance of the Archeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and with the participation of the county organisation - in the course of whose accomplishment we may consider the publication of scientific studies belonging to a ma)or subject or coming within the province of a scientific branch. In addition, it will, of course, also be inevitable to publish volumes compiled in a different manner and including the studies of the most different specialized branches of the museums. Some of these specialized branches will find an opportunity for publication only in volumes of this nature, and our publications will also have to give an account from time to time of the work of the organisation as a whole, In this latter case, too, however, we need not desist from approaching or realizing the requirements mentioned above since the meeting of these requirements depends in the first place on the requirements of standard. Any section of archeological research in the county may secure a place in the results of national and universal archeological research, and also ethnographical activity may find its place in ethnography as a whole by disclosing and reporting on local peculiarities and knowledge. Regional history, in spite of its localized nature, may indeed be a natural building stone of synthesizing historiography. In respect of other museological specialized branches the situation is a similar one. However, to enable opportunities to become reality it will be necessary to expand and promote to a considerable extent the local scientific activity of the museological specialized branches, and to raise its methodological level to the general methodological level of the branches of science. In this work the volumes of our publications will be able to undertake a useful role. In conclusion we recommend our volume which is now published to the attention of readers. The volume publishes archeological studies. It offers the elaboration of two cemeteries dating from the time of the Hungarian conquest, which is rendered 5