Somogyvári Ágnes – V. Székely György szerk.: A Barbaricum ösvényein… A 2005-ben Kecskeméten tartott tudományos konferencia előadásai - Archaeologia Cumanica 1. (Kecskemét, 2011)
Lukács József: Szarmata falu Dunavecse-Ugordáció-dűlőben (Előzetes jelentés)
LUKÁCS JÓZSEF: SZARMATA FALU DUNAVECSE UG 0RDÁCI0 - DÜLŐBEN József Lukács Sarmatian village at Dunavecse-Ugordáció-dűlő (preliminary report) The article reports on the most important results of the rescue excavation conducted in 2005 at a site situated on the track of the by-pass sector of road 51 at Dunavecse-Ugordáció-dűlő. At the 13,000-sq.m large excavated area we found traces of three archaeological periods. Some features of the Makó Culture (Early Bronze Age) were disturbed by a Middle Bronze Age ditch. The majority of features belonged to a Sarmatian settlement. In several cases we observed superpositions, on the basis of which we were able to separate three phases of the settling. Sarmatian buildings excavated at the site belong to several types. There were houses with a shallow foundation, built onto the surface (features 172,190) and a slightly subterranean, regular square shaped house (feature 218) the interior of which was covered with plastered, later well burned wickerwork. Semi-subterranean houses were found in much larger number (features 100,132, 133, 301, 360). In some cases we could observe traces of timber structures (features 133 and 218). In a pit excavated at the corner of a house (feature 100) a dog's skeleton came to light under stones and pieces of burned plaster, with a hand-made mug at its jaw. This ritual burial must had been a building sacrifice. We also found three smoke-pits. All of them were typical: they consisted of three parts (burning pit, smoking pit and a flue between two of them). These features could be used for smoking meat, drying fruits, or, possibly, for heating skin. The most numerous type of features was represented by pits. The total of 281 pits belongs to three main types. The smaller part was used as clay-pits. Most of them were beehive shaped and served as granaries. The rest was used for garbage. Some of the ditches could be used as drainage ditches; the majority of them must have been used as enclosing ditches. One of the interesting features of the excavation is a preserved piece of daily surface of the Sarmatian Age that can be determined as coach road, judging from two deepening parallel narrow lines. Wells of the site deserve special attention. Among 12 excavated wells 9 were shallow water collectors and three belonged to the type of dug wells. Among the latter, in the bottom of feature 55 there was a boarding constructed out of vertical planks and horizontal beams that could be observed and recorded in details. On the basis of superspositions and of the find material, Sarmatian settlement was populated in several phases from the 2 nd to the 5 , h centuries. 127
