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
Piroska Csengeri A particular site of this region has thought to be Bükkaranyos-Földvár. Fine ware of this settlement90 has a characteristic of “mixed style” and there it has not been possible to tie it to a certain pottery style (Bükk or Szakálhát).91 Beside Szakálhát style fine ceramics of the settlement, there have been sherds with classical or late Bükk style (Bükk B-C) and what is more, the duality of decoration may have been observed on singular vessels.92 This site may have alluded to a higher level of contacts between Bükk and Szakálhát communities. Finally, some remarks will follow about the correlation of pottery styles with radiocarbon dates of Middle Neolithic settlements of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. New radiocarbon dates just roughly have confirmed succeeding phases of ALP culture defined by pottery markers and introduced by chapters here. It is obvious that pottery styles had not followed each other with cutting in the past. Furthermore, on the basis of the results of some new dates from Garadna (Tiszadob-Bükk transitional phase) and Sajószentpéter- Kövecses (Bükk AB phase) it also seems that changes in ceramic styles could passed at different territories in different times and possibly with diverse tempo. In this case, it may be supposed that while the styles of Tiszadob-Bükk transitional phase still were used in the Ffernád valley at the same time the Bükk AB styles had already been introduced in the Sajó valley. It points out the necessity of new sets of radiocarbon measurements in order to determine contemporary settlements and to draw changes of each pottery decoration style by time in particular micro-regions. Acknowledgements I would like to thank for the possibility to see unpublished excavation material of Ferenc Losits from Hejce-Püspöktábla to dr. Ildikó Szathmári CSc and Hargita Oravecz in Hungarian National Museum. Thanks for the opportunity to see unpublished Neolithic materials of Herman Ottó Museum and to publish some selected sherds of them to dr. Judit Koós PhD (for Ináncs-Dombrét and Hejőkürt-Lid/), to dr. Mária Wolf PhD (for Encs-Kelecsény) and to dr. Magdolna В. Hellebrandt (for Bodroghalom-Medvetanya, Hydroglobus). I would like to thank for the possibility to use their unpublished MA theses to Orsolya Laczi and János Jakucs and for MA thesis of Ferenc Losits to dr. Gábor Rezi Kató CSc. Last but not least I would like to express my great thanks to G. Krisztina Homola for the drawings of this paper. Bibliography: Băcueţ-Crişan 2008a: S. Băcueţ-Crişan, Descoperiri ale grupului Pişcolt în Judeţul Sălaj - Discoveries belonging to the Pişcolt group in Sălaj County, Acta Musei Porolissensis, 30, 2008, 11-51. Băcueţ-Crişan 2008b: S. Băcueţ-Crişan, Neoliticul şi eneoliticul timpuriu în Depresiunea Şimleului, Bibliotheca Brukenthal 23, Sibiu, 2008. Bânffy 1999: E. Bánffy, Az újkőkori lelőhely értékelése. In T. Petercsák/J. J. Szabó (eds.), Kompolt- Kistér. Újkőkori, bronzkori, szarmata és avar lelőhely. Leletmentő ásatás az M3- as autópálya nyomvonalán - The Site of Kompolt, Kistér. Neolithic settlement and graves, part of a Bronze Age cemetery, Sarmatian and Avar settlements, Heves Megyei Régészeti Közlemények (Eger 1999), 141-170 (English summary: 351-356). Borsy et al. 1989: Z. Borsy, E. Félegyházi, É. Csongor, A Bodrogköz kialakulása és vízhálózatának változásai - Development of the Bodrogköz and its drainage changes, Alföldi Tanulmányok 13, 1989, 65-81. 90 Kalicz/Makkay 1977, Taf. 110-115, Taf. 175-176. 91 The same situation can be noticed in the case of Kompolt-Kistér, site No. 14 (Bánffy 1999, 167) from an earlier stage of ALP regional groups (with Tiszadob and early Bükk ceramics). 92 Kalicz-Makkay 1977, Taf. 110-115, Taf. 175-176. 142
