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Dr Marianna Balint National Office of Cultural Heritage Telephone: Fax: e-mail: bmarica@freemail.hu Projects: Reconstruction of settlement system at Danube-Tisza interfluvial region at the age of the Arpads (11-13th centuries), and reconstruction of environmental condition of Danube-Tisza interfluvial region in the Middle Ages. A few information about this region. Danube-Tisza interfluvial region was formed during the last Pleistocene glacial. It was covered by wind-blown sand, between sand-dunes formed ponds. The lakes must have been formed in the more humid period of the Holocene, when the groundwater table level was higher. This lakes were recharged both by rainwater and by groundwater. Today groundwater level is small, and lakes dried out. Today this region is desert. The net of these lakes provide by water the people at the age of the Arpads and before. There was a lot of archeological site in this region at the age of the Arpads. We know it about results of fieldwalking. It must be noted, that in this region there are no written sources from the age of the Arpads. Therefore this region seems uninhabited in the age of the Arpads, and this is the opinion of historians, who have worked with written sources. By a method of archeological fieldwalking we have mapped lot of archeological site in Danube-Tisza interfluvial region and shown that the region was not uninhabited. The reconstruction of environmental condition is hard work, because there are very few sources. I use archeological data, soil investigation data, soil map data, aerial photographs geomorphological data, and data about the climate in this work. My primary work is the investigation of buried soils on the archeological sites. The result of this work that I can describe buried soils dated by archeological artifacts on some archeological sites.
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