Avar and Árpádian Age Populations along the Maros River

Abstract

Review article of a PhD thesis submitted in 2022 to the Archaeological Doctoral Programme, Doctoral School of History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, under the supervision of Miklós Takács. The research behind the dissertation comprises a basic large-scale evaluation of the material record of primarily Avar Period (7–9th-century) settlements. The study area is located in the Lower Tisza Region and the southern part of the Körös-Maros Interfluve, including the southern part of the Southern Tisza Valley and the entire Marosszög microregion, north of the River Maros, on the lands between Szeged-Öthalom and Csanádpalota/Nagylak.

Keywords

• Lower Maros Valley, Avar Period settlement history, changes in settlement structure, changes in pottery style, radiocarbon date