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I. Nagy L. Márta: Natural Environment

many swamp forests in the area. Together with the food sources, the meadow areas near the site provided a more stable microclimate during the very hot or very cold periods of the year7.

There is no doubt that over time the settlements in the area have begun to shape the surrounding environment, process that started in the phase of the sub-boreal beech and has gradually increased in intensity, due to the practicing of agriculture on the loess lands8. The anthropic effect on the environment was primarily evidenced in the deforestation, the wood being used in processing the metals and firing the ceramics9.

7 Sümegi-Kertész 2001, p. 133-134.

8 Somogyi 2000, p. 13.

9 Frisnyák 2001, p. 119.

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