Petercsák Tivadar – Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 44. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2008)
Domboróczki László: Számítógépes módszerek régészeti adatok tárolására, elemzésére és bemutatására: esettanulmányok Heves megyéből
vation material and to create inventories in our storehouse. The tabloid format is easy to use. It is also easy to conduct searches among the data. We can make searches in our inventories according to site name, feature, shelf number and store box. Although there was a time when we used other programmes written in the Dbase or Clipper programming languages to create catalogues and simpler databases 2, nowadays most of them have been replaced by Excel. For more complex find descriptions, mass find elaborations and statistical find analyses we use the DEPO software. It is a general database-handling software developed by the Hungarian specialists at Lomart Ltd, under the leadership of Zsolt Vízvári. The program operates using wide ranges of data-fields and several pre-built-in units, that allow us to draw up different kinds of statistics in different formats (Excel included). This general database-handling software could easily be adapted to our needs by defining our special fields. We are currently using this program for solving an interesting archaeological problem, namely the typological and chronological analyses of the neolithic ceramic material found at Ftizesabony-Gubakút. It was during an excavation at this site in 1995-1996, that we first discovered the regular row-like settlement structure of the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture. Here the pits, houses (marked with postholes) and graves were arranged regularly along NE-SW-oriented settlement rows (Fig. 1.). Fig. 1. Excavation map from Füzesabony-Gubakút Previously it was uncertain whether the settlement existed for a longer or a shorter time period. Although we have recently radiocarbon-dated most of the features and analysed the relations between them using different methods, there is still a chance that the ceramic material could provide additional clues in helping us to establish a firm relative chronology. The seriation of the ceramics, i.e. the reconstruction of the typological sequences present in the decoration styles and ceramic 2 DOMBORÓCZKI László 1993. 94-96. 6
