Starnini E., Voytek B. -“Post” Transformation: Ongoing Developments in the Organization of Technology during the Neolithic

Abstract

Using lithic data from the Neolithic tell-site of Hungary, the authors discuss social and cultural developments that characterize the Late Neolithic after the Neolithic transformation. The premise is that the inhabitants of the site of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa, had a good knowledge of, and access to, the raw materials that they chose. By the time of the Tisza archaeological culture represented at the site, the landscape had been enculturated. The agro-pastoral subsistence base had been established. Connections with neighbouring territories, through exchange and/or trade, had been developed. Transformation continued, however, within the society particularly in terms of the development of social relations and the growth of socio-economic complexity