U.S.-Hungary Koros Regional Archaeological Research Project: Understanding the Neolithic-Copper Age Transition in the Southeastern Carpathian Basin

这个美国-匈牙利考古研究项目的参与者包括俄亥俄州立大学的威廉·帕金森和理查德·耶克斯，以及贝kescsaba的Munkacsy Mihaly博物馆的Attila Gyucha。他们的目的是研究新石器时代晚期到铜时代早期在匈牙利平原上发生的社会经济组织和变化。合作工作包括在位于科罗斯河谷的两个早期铜器时代的定居点（Veszto 20和Korosladany 14）进行挖掘。研究结果有望有助于我们对“中等”或“部落”社会的社会组织的基本认识，并有助于建立比较游牧经济系统发展的人类学模型。匈牙利和美国共同努力。团队计划在当地环境下探索特定地点的组织，以获得解释喀尔巴阡盆地发现的区域框架。每个地点的工作将包括：1)聚落的规模和空间组织，2)经济组织，3)古环境重建，4)年代和社会互动。所获得的见解应该增加到一个特定的多学科区域工作中，可以应用于大匈牙利平原后期史前社会变化轨迹的模型。虽然是区域性的，但这项研究的结果也有望帮助完善世界其他地方的小规模、半定居农业、自治村庄社会的模型。这个国际考古研究项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和中欧的专家能够结合互补的人才，并在共同感兴趣和有能力的领域分享研究资源。

This U.S.-Hungarian archaeological research project involves William Parkinson and Richard Yerkes of Ohio State University and Attila Gyucha of the Munkacsy Mihaly Museum in Bekescsaba. Their intent is to examine socioeconomic organization and change that occurred during the late Neolithic to Early Copper Age period on the Great Hungarian Plain. The collaborative work involves excavations at two Early Copper Age settlements (Veszto 20 and Korosladany 14) located in the Koros River Valley. Results are expected to contribute to our basic understanding of social organization in "middle range" or "tribal" societies and to anthropological models for comparing development of pastoral economic systems. Together the Hungarian-U.S. team plans to explore the organization of specific sites within their local context to gain a regional framework for interpreting findings in the Carpathian Basin. Efforts at each site will feature: 1) size and spatial organization of settlement sites, 2) economic organization, 3) paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and 4) chronology and social interaction. The insights gained should add to a specific body of multi-disciplinary regional work that can be applied to models for trajectories of social change in the later prehistory of the Great Hungarian Plain. While regionally specific, the results of this research are also expected to help refine models for small-scale, semi-sedentary agricultural, autonomous village societies elsewhere in the world.This international archaeological research project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the Untied States and Central Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.