Tálas László szerk.: The late neolithic of the Tisza region (1987)

Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa (F. Horváth)

F. HORVÁTH Contour map of the site showing the excavated trenches m The first report mentioning prehistoric finds from the mound dates to 1952 when G. Tompa surveyed the area. Following this survey, a small-scale rescue excavation was carried out between various buildings of the Cukor major (Cukor farmstead) by E. Zalotay in 1953 and by Gy. Gazdapusztai in 1955-1956, who resumed his work on the tell in 1957 and 1963 with a view to clarifying the layer sequence (GAZDAPUSZTAI 1963, 21-46; 1969, 125-139). On the basis of his excavations on this site Gazdapusztai distinguished and outlined a 'Late Neolithic knobbed ware distributed in the southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain' that was first termed Gorzsa group by I. Bognár-Kutzián. She also assigned to this group the sites that yielded finds of the Tisza culture together with carefully polished, knob-ornamented pottery (Lebő B, Ószentiván III, Be32