Mészáros Balázs: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 50/2. (Győr, 2012)
Tanulmányok - Félix Teichner: A római tájkultúra hosszútávú hatásának kérdése a Marcal és a Rába vidékén
■ ARRABONA 2012. 50/2._______________________________________________________TANULMÁNYOK THE ISSUE OF THE LONG-TERM EFFECT OF THE ROMAN LANDSCAPE CULTURE IN THE REGION OF THE MARCAL AND RÁBA RIVERS The study presents the latest results of a research program called Archaeological and palinological researches on cultural changes in the beginning of the first millennium in the territory of deserta Boiorum (Pannonia) financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The partners of the program have been the University of Marburg, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Jena and the Xántus János Museum (today Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History). During the stratigraphic and geoarcheological researches in the last years, which focused on the municipium Mursella and its surroundings, an early Roman fortress was identified and it could be testified that the settlement was separated into a central area characterized by Roman provincial stone buildings and rural outskirts inhabited by natives. By means of archaeological surveys and air photos eight - hitherto unknown - native settlements in the surrounding area could also be identified. The trial excavations realized in two sites gave the evidence about the continuous inhabitation of both native settlements from the Iron Age to the Árpadian Age. Archaeologists held an opinion hitherto, that after the Roman conquest the native way of life and native settlement types could survive only on peripheral areas. However, based on the latest archaeological results it appears that the cultural changes were rather moderate in Mursella and its surroundings, though the territory was located in the neighbourhood of the limes and on the important provincial Roman road which run from the Amber Road to the North-eastern border along the Danube. Félix Teichner 36
