Méhtelek: The First Excavated Site of the Méhtelek Group of the Early Neolithic Körös Culture in the Carpathian Basin

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Méhtelek: The First Excavated Site of the Méhtelek Group of the Early Neolithic Körös Culture in the Carpathian Basin : BAR Publishing : 9781407309040 : 1407309048 : 31 Dec 2011 : Méhtelek lies in the easternmost corner of County Szabolcs-Szatmár (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 Méhtelek group, a variant of the Körös culture of the Alföld (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 Méhtelek group of the Alföld Körös culture. Assemblages related to or identical with the finds from Méhtelek came to light in the north-easterly region of the Alföld (

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