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

decorations, material characteristics, surface treatments, physical measurements etc. We designed a two-sided code sheet containing 40 characteristics that had to be filled out for every piece of pottery. This also included sub-descriptions which relied on a seven-page instruction book designed to help us fill out the forms. 2. In 2002 we began to describe the ceramics piece by piece. Because we had to describe c. 4-5000 sherds per pit, it amounted to a huge amount of work and was extremely time-consuming. By 2007 we had only finished the material for 18 pits. 3. In parallel with the descriptions, we filled out the pre-printed code sheets. Because of the mass descriptions of similarly broken pieces, on average nearly 800 code-sheets had to be filled out per pit. 4. In 2007 we began to enter the code-sheet data into the computer. By using the DEPO software we have so far registered 8000 records. We usually register 10-12 special datafields for a single piece of pottery, covering stratigraphic position, material, surface treatment, thickness, size, form, shape, form variant, vessel parts from where the broken piece derives, etc. 5. It is possible to produce several statistics with this program. Combined searches can also be made enabling us to analyse the ceramic material from Gubakút in a manner more detailed than has ever been the case in Hungarian neolithic research. Doing this we should be able to find distinctive (time-specific) typological characteristics suitable for the seriation of the features. It now seems that this will have to be compound data, i.e. a combination of different characteristics present in varying proportions. 6. Along with these distinctive typological characteristics we will also try to seriate the archaeological features. For this we will need to make diagonallyset matrices: while their rows consist of the compound proportions of typological characteristics their columns consist of different site features / pits. This will help us to reconstruct the relative chronology of the features. We believe therefore, that it will be possible to transform the typological sequence of the ceramics (form, decorations etc.) into a chronological sequence based on the features they contain, while at some later point we should also be able to verify the absolute chronology of the radiocarbon dates. If these prove to coincide, we will then have a solid chronological base for dating the settlement relatively as well as absolutely. Map drawing In archaeology we use different kinds of maps. These can be 2 or 3 dimensional, simple or composite. While most of them are used for registration purposes, to record the coordinates of features or excavation surfaces, or to show the relief of 8