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Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605 The Neolithic settlement of Szeghalom-Kovácshalom is the latest focus of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project (KRAP) Parkinson at the Field Museum of Natural History and Dr Attila Gyucha of the Hungarian National Museum The site is representative of an archaeologically defined group called the Tisza who lived on the Great Hungarian Plain from about 5000 to 4500 BC The multidisciplinary team began working at the site in 2010 using three different strategies to understand how its inhabitants used to live they collected pottery pieces (called "sherds") to help define the boundaries of the Neolithic occupation they brought along a group of geophysicists from the Laboratory of Geophysical - Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - Foundation for Research and Technology The geophysics team used a combination of magnetometry and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to identify subsurface features including burned walls and man-made ditches the results from the geophysical prospection allowed the team to select the best longhouses for excavation The subsurface features at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom The data gathered during geophysical analysis and excavation - including longhouse dimensions and wall thickness - were used to create virtual representations of what the structures may have looked like during the Neolithic The video presented here was produced by team members at the geophysical laboratory at IMS-FORTH and it shows how the settlement of Szeghalom-Kovácshalom might have looked at the height of its occupation Check out the video For more information about KRAP, please visit our website This research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (BCS-0911336 the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (ICRG) The Field Museum of Natural History Field Dreams Program and the Anthropology Alliance of the Field Museum of Natural History. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Attila Gyucha (Field Service of Cultural Heritage the project has been investigating the organization of Neolithic and Copper Age settlements in the region since 1998 a new phase of the project began at the site of Szeghalom-Kovácshalom One of the goals of this new phase is to learn more about the environmental and social factors that led to the formation of tells – mounds formed over centuries or millennia of continuous occupation at a site This research will help shed light on the political and economic processes that characterize the beginning of the Neolithic period in the region Ceramic distribution at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom showing a high concentration on the tell (at center) the team employed a rigorous and innovative survey strategy that could be combined easily with geographic information systems (GIS) software They began by laying out a systematic grid of wooden stakes using a Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System (RTK-GPS) a device that measures coordinates with sub-centimeter accuracy with one person collecting all the ceramics and daub (hardened or burned clay from prehistoric houses) lying on the surface of a 10x10 or 20x20 meter square the team collected more than 3,600 of these units Daub distribution at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom After bringing the artifacts back to the lab for washing and analysis the resulting data could be incorporated into a geographic information system (GIS) database to visualize their distribution across the landscape The resulting maps show that clusters of ceramics and daub are not always associated – and in fact daub is a much better indicator of prehistoric houses lying below the surface of the earth Lining up the collection maps with the results of geophysical analysis (in particular the outline of one house clearly corresponds to a cluster of daub on the surface Magnetometry data showing the outline of a prehistoric longhouse and a 10x10 meter excavation block (in red) overlaid with surface collection data: ceramics (left) and daub (right) Meanwhile, another goal of the project was to create a high-quality digital elevation model (DEM) to record very minor elevation changes across the site using the RTK-GPS. This was an important task to complete, since most remotely-sensed elevation data (i.e., from various government satellite missions) is almost useless for areas as flat as the Great Hungarian Plain. Dani Riebe a Graduate Research Assistant at The Field Museum spent several weeks walking around the site with the RTK-GPS attached to her backpack but the resulting DEM was well worth her efforts along with a paleomeander (ancient riverbed) to its east While these data are important for visualization and public dissemination they are also critical in the analysis and interpretation phases of KRAP’s research Digital elevation model (DEM) of Szeghalom-Kovácshalom See an introduction to the Körös Regional Archaeological Project See the Field Museum Expeditions website for updates from the field Automotive industry supplier Csaba Metál on Thursday inaugurated a 5.7 billion forints (EUR 18.2m) expansion to its bases in Békéscsaba and Szeghalom (SE Hungary) The investment was supported by a HUF 1.3bn government grant Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at the inauguration The two new production halls have a combined area of 7,500 sqms The government will award Csaba Metál another 1.3 billion forints grant for a further 3.7 billion planned investment Audi and Mercedes among its business partners CEO and owner Bála Majoros said the company targets a revenue close to 18 billion forints this year As we wrote yesterday, Japanese battery manufacturing specialist GS Yuasa is constructing its first factory in Europe in Miskolc’s southern industrial park; the foundation stone of the new facility, which will be completed by 2019, was laid. 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