The Mesolithic of the Jászság

The ‘Jászság Mesolithic’ is almost iconic in Hungarian research on prehistory because of the abundance of the sites associated with early Holocene hunter-gatherers discovered there since the late 1980s. At these sites, lithic industries unequivocally connected with the Mesolithic and characterised by geometric microliths were found, refuting the ‘Mesolithic hiatus’ theory. Unfortunately, the wave of successful research slowed down after the 2000s. Recently, the Hungarian National Museum National Institute of Archaeology and the Hungarian Research Network Institute of Archaeology in cooperation with county museums such as the Damjanich János Museum in Szolnok and the Jász Museum in Jászberény, embraced the topic and started new research on the Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites of the Jászság. The cooperation is based on the surface find collections gleaned by Gyula Kerékgyártó. In this paper, we present the preliminary results and methodology of our research, which hopefully provides a new basis for a better understanding of the Mesolithic of the Jászság and the early Holocene prehistory of the Carpathian Basin

Archaeology · Geography · Hiatus · Holocene · Mesolithic · National museum · Prehistory · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology