An Iconic Late Neolithic Tell on the Hungarian Plain: Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa in a New Perspective

Raczky, Pál and Horváth, Ferenc and Mesterházy, Gábor and Füzesi, András and Furholt, Kata and Bánffy, Eszter and Podgorelec, Melani and Rassmann, Knut (2024) An Iconic Late Neolithic Tell on the Hungarian Plain: Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa in a New Perspective. HUNGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, 13 (2). pp. 11-29. ISSN 2416-0296

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Abstract

It often happens that the fresh investigation of well-known sites using newly developed techniques and their reassessment brings the recognition that some of the assertions believed to be timelessly true turn out to have been strongly mistaken or were misinterpretations. This has been the case with many of the renowned Late Neolithic tell settlements dated to the earlier fifth millennium BC on the Alföld (Great Hungarian Plain). The collation of the information yielded by the excavation of these sites during the twentieth century with the data provided by non-invasive prospection and new archaeological investigations has paved the way for constructing entirely novel interpretations. A new perspective was forged from the multidisciplinary integration of the data and their comprehensive interpretation. The assessment based on the collation of all available data and evidence provides a firm springboard for interpretations set in a broader perspective and for gaining fresh insights into the period’s history and the one-time social dynamics and changes. This study aims to offer a joint assessment of long-known and more recent, fresh information on the Gorzsa tell settlement in the Tisza Valley in southeastern Hungary.

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