Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 29. (2005) (Szombathely, 2006)

Régészet - Ilon Gábor–Juhász Imola–Sümegi Pál–Jakab Gusztáv–Szegvári Gabriella–Sümeginé Törőcsik Tünde: A Marcal-völgy története az őskortól a középkorig egy környezet – régészeti vizsgálat tükrében – Mezőlak–Szélmező tőzegláp geoarcheológiai vizsgálatának eredményei

Ilon G.-Juhász I.-Sümegi P.-Jakab G.-Szegvári G.-Sümeginé T. T.: Mezőlak-Szélmező tőzegláp geoarcheológiai vizsgálatának eredményei This may have been caused by either the well-balanced climate of the area actually, or the arrangement of the drilling point was not adjusted to the demands of the macrofossil survey Notably, the area is not listed even today amongst those regions abounding in relict species. The recovered row of strata overlapped the past 15 thousand years (Table 2.) representing one of the most outstanding pollen trenches in the Carpathian Basin; its significance may only be compared to those of Zalavár (Juhász 2002a) and Kis-Mohos in Relever (Willis etal. 1997). The taiga forest with sundry foliage of the Late Glacial Age preserving thermomesophyllum relicts, the forest/forest change at the Pleistocene/Holocene switch, the formation of the pine asylum most likely connected to the Lower Bakony Mountains, and the formation of the foliage forest domineered by elm, ash, and oak trees in the Early Holocene bear significant importance in a vegetation chronological point of view. Appearing simultaneously and vigorously, crop cultivation and animal husbandry connected to the process of neolithization as well as the reconstruction of fully developed agricultural activity in the Middle New Stone Age followed by its continuation in the Late Neolithic and Copper Ages have outstanding significance in an archaeological point of view. Having been confirmed archaeologically, the presence of man at the boundary of Mezőlak has been proven uninterrupted from the life of the Kisapostag Culture in the Bronze Age (Lists 1—9., Fig. 13—21.), which aspect is in good conformity with the pollen and macro botanical data of the drilling (Fig. 6-12.). The pollen analyses results and the paleobotanical data of the Bronze and Celtic Ages as well as the pollen data well synchronized with the pollen trench in Velem reflecting the significant effects induced by man both confirm and extend the scene either assumed in respect to these ages and the agricultural quality of the age, or already determined in other areas. Translated by Zoltán Töró'csik 216