Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae 2006 [antikvár]

COMMUNICATIONES ARCH.EOLOGIC/E HUNGÁRIA_2006Attila Gyucha - Gábor Bácsmegi - Ottó Fogas - William A. ParkinsonHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS ON AN EARLY COPPER AGE SITE IN THE GREAT HUNGARIAN PLAINIntroductionThe excavations conducted as part of the Hungarian-American Körös Regional Archaeological Project were begun in 2000 at the Vésztő-Bikeri (Vésztő 20) site. In its current phase, the goal of the long-term research project initiated for the study of the socio-economic changes in the Körös Valley during the Holocene is to explore the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age through the systematic, multi-disciplinary investigation of Early Copper Age settlements. 1The site lies in the northern part of County Békés, on the western outskirts of Vésztő by the boundary