Petercsák Tivadar – Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 44. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2008)

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arrangements. Now the analysis of the processes through which this kind of rowlike settlement came into being has become the focus of research. According to the excavation data it has become obvious that these settlement rows developed over a considerable period of time - sometimes more than 300-400 years. But we don't have to restrict our research only to the area already excavated. Over the boundaries of the excavated surfaces there were further settlement remains which would need to be included in the settlement historical analyses. But to what extent could we expand the scope of our investigation outside the excavated areas? How large were these settlements anyway? To find the answers to these questions we first had to collect more field data using GPS and then put the data into context by drawing 2D composite maps of the site. Our first composite map is basically a geographical map to which more and more data was added. By this we were able to demonstrate the course of the research of the site and attempt to trace the course of the neolithic settlement. The ditch - in the middle of the site - marks a one-time riverbed, that cut through the area as early as the late paleolithic. Its bed remained visible and during recent decades has been deepened into a ditch to drain the water off the land during rainy periods. We added in grey the course of the proposed motorway as planned in the early 1990s. In 1992 we made a surface find collection and located a neolithic site here on both sides of the ditch. We marked these areas with vertical slashes. Because the few sherds we found on the surface suggested a less important site, in 1994 we made a magnetometer survey to decide exactly where to excavate before any digging took place. On the magnetometer map the dark patches indicate those areas where considerable soil disturbance was supposed. The low nT values, however, suggested only little soil disturbance. In 1995, just before the excavation, we made another surface find collection that revealed that the western-lying areas were also covered with neolithic sherds. This part is marked by horizontal slashes (Fig. 3.). We carried out the excavation in 1995-1996. First we focused only on those areas, where some soil disturbance was supposed according to the magnetometer map. Later, however, when we discovered the regularity and spatial position of the features, we opened larger surfaces. We also mapped the area we researched (Fig. 4.). As we mentioned this was the first site the regular settlement structure of the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture had been found. After the excavation and the evaluation of the field data, when trying to solve the settlement historical issues, mapping the extent of the settlement became more important. Last year we made another surface find collection to measure the whole extent of the neolithic settlement. With GPS we registered those places where the ceramics concentrated. These are the black dots on the map. Interestingly enough the dots of find density are distributed along the same settlement lines that we observed during the exca10