Marta, Livius et al.: The Late Bronze Age Settlement of Nyíregyháza-Oros „Úr Csere” (Satu Mare, 2010)

VIII. Conclusions. Nyíregyháza-Oros site and its significance for the reearch of the Late Bronze Age

VIII. CONCLUSIONS. NYÍREGYHÁZA OROS SITE AND

ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE RESEARCH OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE

Thanks to the research performed, the „Úr-Csere” settlement of Nyíregyháza-Oros is becoming now a reference site for the Late Bronze Age archaeology of the Upper Tisa Basin. The site is located in an area of confluence between several late Bronze Age cultures and, probably, populations, having a geographic distribution that cannot be precisely stated in all cases. The earlier researches used to establish the extent of the area occupied by the communities assigned to the Hadjdiibagos-Cehăluţ cultural group up to the environs of the Nyirlugos - „Szennyespuszta” settlement295. However, more recently it has been shown that the cultural manifestations of the Hajdfibagos-Cehăluţ type extend farther towards north-east.

This statement was grounded on several discoveries made in the area of the town of Nyíregyháza296 - an area previously assigned to the Suciu de Sus culture297. The confusion was generated by the fact that pottery of the Suciu de Sus type was discovered in several archeological sites located nearby the town of Nyíregyháza (Nyíregyháza-„Bujtos” and Nyíregyháza-„Morgó”). Now it is becoming much clearer that the pottery of Suciu de Sus type discovered in this region can be considered as an „imported product” and the archaeological researches performed at Oros emphasize this fact once again. A third cultural phenomenon in question for the late Bronze Age period in the Nyír area is the Berkesz culture298. Recent research tends to prove that the definition of this cultural phenomenon, as given decades ago, was based on erroneous premises.299

The cultural framing

When assigning the cultural materials from Oros, it is necessary to discuss the ratio between the archaeological materials assigned to Hajdfibagos-Cehăluţ group and the ones from the discoveries previously considered as being of Berkesz type. It is con-295 Kovács 1970, p. 26-47; Zoltay 1909, p. 34-40.

296 Tóth-Marta 2005, p. 127-128; Nagy 2007.

297 Kalicz 1960, p. 1-15.

298 Kemenczei 1963, p. 182-183; Kovács 1967.

299 Tóth-Marta 2005; Nagy 2007.

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