First villages, Lost world of the Neolithic southeast Transdanubia
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EXHIBITION First villages, Lost world of the Neolithic southeast Transdanubia 23 October 2024 – 1 February 2025 Working hours
During the 7-5th millennium BC significant changes transformed the life of the societies in the Balkans and Central Europe. The former hunter-gatherer (Mesolithic) communities have gradually learned and mastered the neolithic achievements of the Near East, such as the farming, the animal husbandry and the pottery making. All these innovations have brought not only technological changes but also substantial shifts in lifestyle and in the social stuctures. The most striking feature of this was the appearance of permanent settlements with a large number of ceramic fragments and other artifacts. In the 2000s during large-scale excavations conducted in southern Transdanubia, in Hungary (Baranya, Tolna and Somogy counties) several significant archaeological sites were uncovered from all periods of the Neolithic (7th to 5th millennium BC). Because previously this area was unexplored these sites opened up new perspectives for prehistoric research. The colleagues of the Institute of Archaeology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities has been working on the scientific analysis of these sites for almost 10 years. Using modern research methods (archeogenetics, landscape archeology, geophysical surveys, non-destructive researches, radiocarbon dating) they are trying to find answers to questions about the technological, economic and social changes that have taken place in the region. For that very reason our goal is to present for the public the most significant findings were found during these large-scale excavations of the area. Impressum Organisers: Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, (Budapest) Exhibition Authors: Csilla Gáti, János Jakucs, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross Exhibition curator: Jacqueline Balen The exhibits on display were lent by: Janus Pannonius muzej, Pécs, Rippl-Rónai muzej, Kaposvár, Wosinsky Mór muzej, Szekszárd Panel tekst authors: : János Jakucs, Kitti Köhler, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Gábor Serlegi, Bence Vágvölgyi Graphic Design: Magda Éber, Zsolt Réti, Viktor Szinyei Photographs: István Füzi Conservation and restoration: Zsuzsanna Ba, Lúcia Glattfelder, László Gucsi, Kristóf Kiltau Translation from Hungarian: INTERPRETA usluge d.o.o. Technical Realisation: Slađana Latinović, Vedran Mesarić, Ivan Troha, Robert Vazdar Graphic Design of the panels: Srećko Škrinjarić Marketing and public relations: Davorka Maračić Educational program: Zorica Babić Izložba je financirana sredstvima Grada Zagreba i Ministarstva kulture i medija RH The exhibition has been supported and financed by the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia Institutions participating in the realization of the exhibition: HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Archaeology, (Budapest), Hungarian National Museum, (Budapest), Janus Pannonius Museum, (Pécs), Rippl-Rónai Museum, (Kaposvár), Wosinsky Mór Museum, (Szekszárd) Leaders and participants of archaeological research: Eszter Bánffy, Károly Belényesy, Viktor Cziráki, Attila Czövek, Andrea Csekő, István Ecsedy, William J. Eichmann, Szilvia Fábián, Attila Gaál, Zsolt Gallina, Olivér Gábor, Csilla Gáti, Péter Hornok, Tünde Horváth, János Jakucs, Nándor Kalicz, Gábor Kárpáti, Róbert Kertész , István Koós, Gergely Kovaliczki, Tibor Marton, Erzsébet Nagy, Krisztián Oross, Anett Osztás, János Gábor Ódor, Tibor Paluch, Krisztina Pesti, Rezső Pusztai, Ferenc Redő, Béla Simon, Krisztina Somogyi, András Sófalvi, József Szarka, Olga Vajda, Melinda Vindus, Vanda Voicsek The research has been supported by: NKFI K-19/132663: Transforming traditions of material culture. Spatial and temporal patterns in pottery style, production and use during the second half of the 6th millennium BC in SE-Transdasnubia and beyond (2020-2025).- PI: Tibor Marton NKFI 112366: Neolithic Communities in the cotact zone between the Balkans and Central europe in the second half of the 6th millennium BC (2015-2019) – PI: Krisztián Oross European Research Council, Advanced Investigator Grant 295412: The Times of Their Lives: towards precise narratives of change in the European Neolithic through formal chronological modelling (2012-2017) PI: Alasdair Whittle and Alex Bayliss NKFI K 81230: Alsónyék: from the beginnings of food production to the end of the Neolithic (2010-2015) – PI: Eszter Bánffy Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft AL 287-10-1: Bevölkerungsgeschichte des Karpatenbeckens in der Jungsteinzeit und ihr Einfluss auf die Besiedlung Mitteleuropas (2010-2014) PI: Kurt W. Alt |
