Enriqueta Vento Mir – Pierre Guerin koord.: Early Farmers in Europe - A korai földművelők Európában (1999)

Domboróczki László: Az újkőkor idősebb szakasza ÉK-Magyarországon, a Heves megyei régészeti leletek fényében

nearby, particularly taking into consideration the importance of plentiful supplies of wood for house building, ceramic firing and heating. The occurrence of auroch, wild horse, roe and rabbit bone points to the probable existence of groves and meadows, but the people could also have hunted in the near mounta in forests also (the bones of boar and deer point to this scenario). Among the animal bones there were also remains of waterbird, fish and tortoise and, judging from the quantity of shells, shellfish and snails were also eaten. Beyond the near Bükk Mountains (a probable hunting area), more distant mountains were also visited. A very common type of hydro-quartzite ivas brought from the Mátra Mountains lying at 30-40 kilometres distance, and the most frequent stone type in the settlements, the obsidian, was derived from the Slovak.ian part of the Zemplén Mountains, lying a minimum 150 kilometres from the site. (6) The latter could have come through exchange or trade, as is the case with transdanubian raw materials and with the marble and spondylus

. Of course, jewellery such as the commonly occurring bead strings and the armlets could have brought here as final products as well. Besides the sources of the ra w material, the spread of the identical ceramic styles also enables us to outline this one-time system of trade and cultural relations. The earliest ALP spread through the northern part of the Great Hungarian Plain, from Heves County to Northwestern-Transylvania. (7) Some of the earliest ceramic forms as well as the 36