Описание: Archaeolingua Central European Series 6
M htelek lies in the easternmost corner of County Szabolcs-Szatm r (Carpathians, eastern Hungary). The importance of this archaeological site is manifold. The finds from the 1973 excavation and the fresh archaeological information provided by the site confirmed earlier speculations that the broader region had been part of the Early Neolithic world. The finds enabled the separation of the M htelek group, a variant of the K r s culture of the Alf ld (the Hungarian Plain), as well as the precise cultural and chronological attribution of several assemblages of stray finds, which had earlier simply been classified as Neolithic, to the M htelek group of the Alf ld K r s culture. Assemblages related to or identical with the finds from M htelek came to light in the north-easterly region of the Alf ld (principally in County Szabolcs-Szatm r-Bereg) and in the neighbouring regions of Romania and the Ukraine. Although the number of known sites is low, the currently known fourteen sites outline the boundaries of the groups distribution. The number of sites will undoubtedly increase in the future. Owing to various technical and other reasons, many decades have elapsed between the sites excavation and the publication of the final report on the M htelek site and its finds. No more than a few preliminary and incomplete reports have been published to date, some of them leading to misunderstandings and erroneous conclusions. The time is more than ripe for the publication of this report.
