Agria 39. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2003)
Domboróczki László: Radiokarbon adatok Heves megye újkőkori régészeti lelőhelyeiről
postholes made it impossible to trace any regular structures. In this zone there were also consider amounts of archaeological material from other periods, forming a chaotic (and undatable) system of postholes. Two samples were taken at the late ALP site at KompoltKígyósér. Because of the large difference between the two dates and the apparently irregularity of the ALP site we were at least able to reconstruct the layout of the settlement. Füzesabony-Gubakút The archaeological site is situated three kilometres to the west of the track linking Füzesabony and Dormánd, on a more or less flat area on what are now the banks of a dried out dead channel of the Laskó. The river once approached the site from the west before bending suddenly and taking a north-south trajectory, cutting the wide and not particularly deep valley in two. The rescue dig took place from April to November 1995, continuing between March and June in 1996. 6 0.8 hectares of the settlement were excavated, consisting of two rows of buildings running along either side of the dried out river bed in a NE-SW direction. In the rows of the settlements, between the pits, were traces of wooden-framed houses around which graves were found (thirteen in all). 7 The regularities in the layout of the settlement, still considered strange at the time, were recognised relatively early on, leading to the originally 60-metre wide excavation trenches being widened accordingly to 120m in places (map 1.). Most of the finds were concentrated in the pits, being for the most part early ALPSzatmár II as well as classical ALP. Amongst the substantial amounts of ceramic material were fragments from both painted and unpainted altars as well as remnants of religious deities. 8 Apart from the ALP objects there was evidence of a number of Avar wells and Sarmatian and Bronze Age pits which found themselves superimposed on the Neolithic objects by default. The thickness of the humus layer varied between 60 and 95cm, and in some places - mainly from the levels where scatterings of tile were found - it was possible to locate the walking surface of the settlement. All in all the site provided an excellent environment in which to examine the circumstances in which people lived. As mentioned earlier, not only did the site provide the best conditions for examining settlement structure, it also produced the richest finds. It is for this reason, and in order to build up a picture of the settlement, that we took the most radiocarbon samples here (fig. 1 a-d, maps 2-5). Mezó'szemere-Kismari-Fenék The area excavated is situated on the SE limits of the village of Szihalom, about 500-600m east of the track linking Szihalom and Mezőszemere, on a more or less flat site in a valley-like depression divided into two by a dried-up brook. The area of the 6 DOMBORÓCZKI László 1996. 193-214., DOMBORÓCZKI László 1997c. 68-69., 84-85. 7 DOMBORÓCZKI László 2000b. 103. ill. 2. 8 DOMBORÓCZKI László 1997a. 19-27., 162-164. 7
