Pop, Dan: The Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Petea-Csengersima (Satu Mare, 2009)
Preface
Preface This work aims to inform those interested about the results of the archaeological excavations conducted by colleagues of the museum Jósa András of Nyíregyháza and carried out on the archaeological site from Csengersima “Határátkelő" (Szobolcs -Szatmár -Bereg megye, Hungary) dating from the Middle Bronze Age. Since not all the archaeological materials from the Middle Bronze Age features have been drawn, we feel obliged to make an overview of the pottery and of the cross-cultural relations as soon as possible. I need to specify the fact that the settlement at Csengersima makes also the subject of my PhD thesis entitled The Middle Bronze Age in the Lower Someş Basin, therefore all the aspects I have dealt with in general terms or might have even omitted here will be detailed in my future work. I was offered the entire archaeological material and documentation for publication: photographs, drawings features, as well as the ground plan of the excavation journal, by my colleagues who have carried out the research: Dr. Istvánovits Eszter and Dr. Almássy Katalin. I am sending them special thanks for the help, suggestions and support they have provided, as well as for the fruitful cooperation during my participation in the archaeological excavations on the M3 motorway in Hungary, in the period between 2004-2006. I made my documentation at the Jósa András Museum of Nyíregyháza and I was kindly provided with support and assistance from the archaeologists: Dr. Németh Péter, Dr. Kurucz Katalin, Nagy Mártha, Jakab Attila, Lukács József, Scholtz Róbert, Pintye Gábor, Balász Gergely; and restorers: Szinyéri Péterné, Takácsné Varga Ágnes, Németh Erika and Mester Andrea. I would also like to thank the former and current managers of the Jósa András Museum: Dr. Dám László and Dr. Bene János for the logistic support they offered me in the past, as well as for their perseverance in doing so in the present. For support and assistance I thank my colleagues of the County Museum of Satu Mare with whom I worked at the M3 motorway in Hungary: Cipirian Astaloş, Robert Gindele, Kádas Zoltán, Liviu Marta and Szőcs Levente Péter. I thank the former and present managers of the County Museum of History and Archaeology of Maramureş: Grigorc Man, Dr. Carol Kacsó, PhD. Viorel Rusu for understanding my need to travel to the Museum of Nyíregyháza over shorter or longer periods of time. The graphic and the ink drawings were made by my talented colleagues Zamfir Şomcutean and Gavril Moldovan. Alina Filip from the museum of Baia Marc is the author of the digital processing of the drawings and the documentation of the excavations. I am grateful to all of them. I also thank my colleague Szőcs Levente Péter, the project manager, for his trust in me and for his patience that I have often tested. The suggestions and the corrections of the text in Romanian were made by my colleagues and friends Sorin Oanţă-Marghitu from the National History Museum of Romania, Alexandru Dragoman from the Archaeological Institute „Vasile Párvan” of Bucharest and by Oana Leşiu from the County Museum of History and Archaeology of Maramureş. The Hungarian translation of the excavations journal was made by Feleg Erika Rosa.Thank you. I hope that the publishing of the results of the research from Csengersima-Határátkelő will contribute to a better knowledge of the Middle Bronze Age in the Someş Plain. Baia Mare, 2009 7
