Mesolithic and Neolithic finds from Zbehy-Dolné lúky site, sectors A0–M10
Adrián Nemergut
Archeologický ústav SAV, v. v. i., 2 Akademická, Nitra, SK-949 21, Slovensko; E-mail: adrian.nemergut@savba.sk, ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4176-1733
Michal Cheben
Archeologický ústav SAV, v. v. i., 2 Akademická, Nitra, SK-949 21, Slovensko; ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9534-3115
Klaudia Daňová
Archeologický ústav SAV, v. v. i., 2 Akademická, Nitra, SK-949 21, Slovensko; ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5682-9518
Marek Vojteček
Archeologický ústav SAV, v. v. i., 2 Akademická, Nitra, SK-949 21, Slovensko; ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-7244
Peter Šefčík
Štátny geologický ústav Dionýza Štúra, 1 Mlynská dolina, Bratislava 11, SK-817 04 Slovensko
Juraj Maglay
Štátny geologický ústav Dionýza Štúra, 1 Mlynská dolina, Bratislava 11, SK-817 04 Slovensko
Martina Moravcová
Štátny geologický ústav Dionýza Štúra, 1 Mlynská dolina, Bratislava 11, SK-817 04 Slovensko
Cite as: Nemergut, A., Cheben, M., Daňová, K., Vojteček, M., Šefčík, P., Maglay, J., & Moravcová, M. (2023). Mesolithic and Neolithic finds from Zbehy-Dolné lúky site, sectors A0–M10. In A. Király (Ed.), From tea leaves to leaf-shaped tools. Studies in honour of Zsolt Mester on his sixtieth birthday (pp. 259–270). Lithic Research Roundtable & Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. https://doi.org/10.23898/litikumsi02a11
Abstract: Rescue excavations in the Nitra industrial park at the Zbehy-Dolné lúky site in 2017 revealed occupations from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Eneolithic, Early Bronze, early medieval and modern periods. The Mesolithic remains are remarkable, as no settlement has been recorded previously from that period in Nitra and its vicinity. In the eastern part of the site, in sectors A0–M10, a cultural layer contained assemblages of mostly lithic artefacts from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, confirmed by 14C dates on animal bones from the lower part of the cultural layer, 5910 ± 40 uncal. BP and 7790 ± 60 uncal. BP.
Keywords: Mesolithic, Neolithic, Slovakia, Nitra, Rescue excavation, Lithic industry, 14C dating
We would like to thank W. Chu and Ľ. Kaminská for information regarding their radiocarbon dating from the Barca I site and Z. Bielichová for identification of animal bones from sector F7.
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Funding statement: This article was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under Contract no. APVV-20-0521 and project VEGA 2/0101/19.
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