Balogh Zoltán – Fodor Miklós Zoltán (szerk.): Neograd 2016 - A Dornyay Béla Múzeum Évkönyve 39. (Salgótarján, 2016)

Régészet - Guba Szilvia–Fábián Szilvia–Czifra Szabolcs–Nicklas Larsson–Roderick B. Salisbury: ISzaP – Ipoly-Szécsény Achaeological Project – Egy mikro-regionális kutatás lehetőségei és tapasztalatai

using the parameters of the new sites and the addition of new variables, in order to mark new potential research areas in the basin.

In our future surveys, emphasis will be put on additional non-destructive approaches (e.g., geophysical survey and 3D terrain modelling). In addition, soil chemistry survey and geological drilling will extend the information we gathered about settlements and the environment, respectively. The considerable areas covered by woodland and pasture, which are inaccessible to field surveying, require alternative prospection methods. To this end, LiDAR and airborne imaging spectroscopy will provide a starting point, and we will then employ shovel testing or coring in areas with a high probability for settlements.

The archaeological research of the middle Ipoly Valley has so far generated a number of new scientific questions and opportunities. In addition to reconstructing the regional settlement pattern, the next stage of research will focus on pottery analysis. Ceramic material from Szécsény-Ültetés suggests that the Zseliz community had extensive connections to the east, south, and west. Stylistic, petrographic, and chemical analyses will help to determine whether decorated vessels were imported from afar or produced locally. Provenance studies of chipped and ground-stone objects will aim to answer similar questions for lithic materials. As a result of our previous research, we intend to establish a cross-border project that analyzes settlement networks and hierarchy using up-to-date modern remote sensing, geophysics, and other interdisciplinary research methods.

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