Cristian, Virag (szerk.): Neolithic cultural phenomena in the Upper Tisa Basin (Satu Mare, 2015)

Piroska Csengeri: Middle Neolithic Painted Pottery from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, North-Eastern Hungary

Middle Neolithic Painted Pottery from Borsod- Abaúj-Zemplén County...

Name of the site

Middle Neolithic styles of the site

„Foreign” painted ceramics

Bodroghalom-Medvetanya,

Hydroglobus

Bükk В

Esztár

Felsővadász-Várdomb

Bükk B-C

Non-Esztár (Diakovo phase) or belonged to a Late Neolithic phase of the site

Hejőkürt-Lidl

Early Tiszadob

Esztár; Non-Esztár (Raskovce phase)

Mezőkeresztes-Cet-halom

?ALP 3, Early Tiszadob, Tiszadob-Bükk transition, Szakálhát

Esztár

Mezőnagymihály-Salamontanya

ALP-Tiszadob or ALPSzakálhát transition, Szakálhát

Esztár

Mezőzombor-Temető

Tiszadob, Tiszadob-Bükk transition, Bükk AB, Bükk B-C

Esztár

Fig. 7. „Foreign” painted ceramics from new excavated Middle Neolithic sites of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County

On the basis of these finds, it can be said that the Bodrogköz micro-region of the Upper Tisza Region (where Sátoraljaújhely and Bodroghalom settlements have been found) might be a contact zone between the “incised block” of ALP culture and the “painted block” of Middle Neolithic. And the above mentioned settlements may refer to a higher level of contacts between these major “blocks”. Location of the contact zones between the ALP and PPC cultures have already outlined by M. Potushniak.88 It would be worthy to examine the proportion of incised and painted ceramics on the sites within these zones and nearby them. Following this, it would be important to analyse the shifting of the proportions from west to east and from south to north in these territories to make conclusions about the aspects of the relations between the groups using different manners of pottery decoration (namely, incised and painted).

Beside the Bodrogköz as frontier zone between the “incised” and “painted blocks” of Middle Neolithic, another contact zones within the “incised block”, between Bükk and Szakálhát cultures can be observed in the territory of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. One of them (western part of South Borsod) with the influence of Bükk pottery on Szakálhát ceramic tradition has already been mentioned at the description of Szakálhát culture. Another area can be detected in the adjacent territory of the Bükk Mountains (in the southern and eastern part of it) on the basis of larger number of Szakálhát style fine and house ware (but no more than 10 sherds/per site) found at cave settlements of the Bükk culture in this micro-region. The presence of Szakálhát type finds in cave material of the Bükk culture had already been referred by F. Losits.89

in Archaeological Data Ware of Herman Ottó Museum: 1406-78).

88 Potushniak 2011, 67.

89 Losits 1976, 82.

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