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

Forms of the incised and undecorated pottery of Novajidrány and Szentistvánbaksa have been similar to ones of painted ceramics of the same sites49. Best analogies of them can be found in Mezőkövesd-Mocsolyás settlement.50

Another clay-extraction pit has to be mentioned from Szentistvánbaksa - feature SI - full of wattle-and-doub pieces but with much less ceramics and among them much less painted pieces (PL 2, 1-4) than of S14. Had this feature a different function? This observation can lead us to the conclusion that the number of painted ceramics found in an ALP 1 settlement can be in connection not just with the soil conditions but either with the number of excavated features or with the deposing practice of the Neolithic community of the site.

AMS Lab. code

Site, feature

Sample type

Archaeological age

Radiocarbon age (BP)

Radiocarbon age (cal BC - 68.2%)

Radiocarbon

age

(cal BC - 95.4%)

DeA-2616.1.1

Mezőzombor- Temető, grave 49/2001

Human bone

Tiszadob

6376±28

5459 (5.24%) 5453 5375 (94.76%) 5316

5467 (24.46%) 5403 5386 (75.54%) 5308

DeA-2619.1.1

Szentistvánbaksa- Anyagnyerő, pit S14

Animal bone

ALP 1 phase (probably the end of this period)

6350±28

5361 (100%) 5309

5464 (3.59%) 5444 5422 (1.78%) 5408 5380 (87.31%) 5294 5267 (7.32%) 5226

DeA-2620.1.1

Szentistvánbaksa- Anyagnyerő, pit SI

Animal bone

ALP 1 phase (probably the end of this period)

6319±28

5324 (58.32%) 5294 5265 (41.68%) 5228

5356(100%) 5222

DeA-2617.1.1

Felsővadász- Semjék-dűlő, grave S18

Human bone

Tiszadob

6290±28

5307 (32.6%) 5288 5270 (67.4%) 5226

5316(100%) 5218

DeA-2618.1.1

Novajidrány- Terpesz Kelet, grave S44

Human bone

Tiszadob

6246±28

5297 (73.3%) 5244 5231 (26.7%) 5213

5308 (87.96%) 5206 5164 (7.36%) 5118 5107 (4.68%) 5078

Poz-35278

Garadna- Elkerülő út, site No. 2, grave S20

Human bone

Tiszadob-Bükk

transitional

phase

6220±40

5292 (10.6%) 5268 5227(12.9%) 5204 5170 (44.7%) 5075

5303 (42.8%) 5191 5183(52.6%) 5057

Poz-35279

Garadna- Elkerülő út, site No. 2, grave S191

Human bone

Tiszadob-Bükk

transitional

phase

6200±40

5218(8.8%) 5201 5177 (59.4%) 5069

5296 (10.0%) 5240 5232 (85.4%) 5046

DeA-2615.1.1

Mezőzombor- Temető, grave 21A/2001

Human bone

?Bükk C (yellow incrusted)

6194±28

5213(8.65%) 5205 5167 (54.6%) 5116 5111 (36.75%) 5076

5282 (0.73%) 5274 5225 (99.27%) 5048

Poz-35280

Sajószentpéter- Kövecses, grave 22

Human bone

Bükk AB

6190±40

5214(6.9%) 5201 5177 (61.3%) 5068

5293 (5.4%) 5248 5229 (90.0%) 5026

Fig. 6. New radiocarbon dates from Middle Neolithic settlements of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County (DeA measurements: Debrecen Radiocarbon Laboratory, calibration data set: intcal09.14c, Reimer et al. 2009, 1 year moving average; Poz measurements: Poznan Radiocarbon Laboratory, calibration data set: OxCal v4.1.5, Bronk Ramsey 2010, r:5, atmospheric data from Reimer et al. 2009)

For the absolute age of Novajidrány settlement there has been no information, yet. In the case of Szentistvánbaksa site we have two radiocarbon dates (Fig. 6). One measurement from

49 For Novajidrány: Csengeri 2003, Fig. 10, Fig. 11, 2-3, Fig. 12. Szentistvánbaksa material hasn’t been published yet.

50 Kalicz/Koós 1997, Abb. 8-10; 2000, Fig. 13-15; 2002, Abb. 19-23; 2014, 44-47, Fig. 31 -46; PI. 31 -101, Pl. 104.

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