Nagy Emese Gyöngyvér - Dani János - Hajdú Zsigmond szerk.: MÓMOSZ II. (Debrecen, 2004)

V. Szabó Gábor: Ház, település és településszerkezet a késő bronzkori (BD, HA, HB periódus) Tisza-vidéken

1. The reason in the background was the increase of the number of the people. The increased population could only find arable or cultivable lands outside of the flood areas. The cultivation of the more cohesive soil types could be hepled by the new technologies introduced in the agriculture of the Late Bronze Age. 2. Along with the growth of the population, the quantity of the stock of cattle also increased very suddenly. Cattle became one of the important carriers of social status, thus larger and larger herds of cattle developed. There are several data supporting the assumption that, from the HA period on, in the so-called „mixed (animal husbandry and farming) economies" in the Great Hungarian Plain area, the grazing type of animal husbandry got to be more and more dominant over fanning and horticulture. The grazing fields in the flood areas did not prove to be sufficient for the larger amounts of cattle any more, so new territories had to be conquered for the herds. 3. During the course of the Late Bronze Age, the general climate in and around the Carpathian Basin became cooler and more humid, with the water level of the different bodies of water and of the subsoil getting higher. Due to the spreading of waterlogged areas and the rising water levels in general, a part of the population could be forced out of the flood area vegetation zones. V. SZABÓ GÁBOR ELTE BTK RÉGÉSZETTUDOMÁNYI INTÉZET 1088 BUDAPEST, MÚZEUM KRT. 4/B