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Kl\u00e1rafalva – Hajdova 1976. Photo Credit: John O’ Shea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early Research at Kl\u00e1rafalva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kl\u00e1rafalva – Hajdova is located on the left bank of the Maros, north of the village Kl\u00e1rafalva (see Figure 1). The first excavations of this tell site was conducted by Ferenc M\u00f3ra, director of the Szeged Museum in 1931. Unfortunately no documentation preserved from this early excavation, but material from the excavations preserved and housed at the museum<\/a> in Szeged, Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, in the 1960s Ott\u00f3 Trogmayer, archaeologist of the Szeged Museum conducted research at the site. The local agricultural corporate aimed to level the area of the tell site, which triggered the further research at the site. Prior to the excavations, they cored the tell. The coring suggested a 340 cm occupation layer, and based on the burnt horizons, Trogmayer anticipated 3 main occupation phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1969 O. Trogmayer and I. Stancik opened two excavation blocks at the site. A 4×6 m (Block A) and a 4×4 m block (Block B). They excavated 3 m of cultural layers and noted 9 habitation levels in a short report, all of which Trogmayer associated with the Sz\u0151reg-Perj\u00e1mos group. It is important to note, that according to later reports on this excavation (see bellow), 40-60 cm soil was removed from the tell prior to the excavations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short report on the 1969 excavation was published by F. Horv\u00e1th in 1985. The material from both of the 1931 and 1969 excavations were systematically analyzed and published by K. P. Fischl in the late 1990s. The analysis concluded that the material from the M\u00f3ra excavation belonged to the late\/young phase of the Sz\u0151reg-Perj\u00e1mos sequence. Fischl noted that M\u00f3ra\u2019s excavations probably did not explore the entire sequence of the tell, only the upper levels. She came to this conclusion based on the preserved material and some oral accounts. The analysis of the Trogmayer excavation noted that the occupation at the site was established in the earlier phase of the Sz\u0151reg-Perj\u00e1mos culture and the overall material from the two excavations indicated that the occupation continued till the latest phase of the Middle Bronze Age (see P.Fischl references below for details).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third excavation was conducted in 1987 and 1988 by J. O\u2019Shea (University of Michigan) in collaboration with F. Horv\u00e1th (M\u00f3ra Ferenc Museum, Szeged). Learn about this research here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Major Maros settlements and cemetery sites. Kl\u00e1rafalva is circled with red. Base map is adopted from: O\u2019Shea, John M. and Amy Nicodemus 2019: Figure 3.1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sources:
Horv\u00e1th, Ferenc
      1985 Contributions to the early and middle Bronze Age of southern Alf\u00f6ld. M\u00f3ra Ferenc M\u00fazeum \u00c9vk\u00f6nyve Szeged<\/em> 1982-1983 (1):55-71.
P. Fischl, Kl\u00e1ra
       1997  Kl\u00e1rafalva-Hajdova I. bronzkori tell telep\u00fcl\u00e9s.<\/em> In L\u00e1tt\u00e1k Tr\u00f3ja kapuit. Bronzkori leletek a K\u00f6z\u00e9p-Tisza vid\u00e9k\u00e9r\u0151l<\/em>, pp. 83-122. Gyulai Katal\u00f3gusok, Vol. 3,
      P\u00e9ter Havassy, general editor.
      1998a  Die Tellsiedlung von Kl\u00e1rafalva-Hajdova.<\/em> In The early and middle Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin<\/em>, edited by Horia  Ciugudean, and Florin Gogaltan,
     pp. 213-241. Bibliotheca Musei Apulensis, Vol. 8. Muzeul National al Unirii, Alba Iulia.
      1998b  Kl\u00e1rafalva-Hajdova bronzkori telltelep\u00fcl\u00e9se II. Studia Archaeologica (M\u00f3ra Ferenc M\u00fazeum \u00c9vk\u00f6nyve)<\/em> 4(1998):81-175.
Trogmayer, Ott\u00f3
       1969    Kl\u00e1rafalva-Hajdova. R\u00e9g\u00e9szeti F\u00fczetek I. <\/em>22:13.
       1970a  Kl\u00e1rafalva-Hajdova. Archaeologiai \u00c9rtesit\u0151<\/em> 97:306.
       1970b  Kl\u00e1rafalva-Hajdova. R\u00e9g\u00e9szeti F\u00fczetek I.<\/em> 23:8-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source of image:
O\u2019Shea, John M. and Amy Nicodemus 2019 “…the nearest run thing…” The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Polity in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe, In Coming Together: Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization<\/em>, edited by A. Gyucha, pp. 61-80. The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series; SUNY Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Research at Kl\u00e1rafalva Kl\u00e1rafalva – Hajdova is located on the left bank of the Maros, north of the village Kl\u00e1rafalva (see Figure 1). The first excavations of this tell site was conducted by Ferenc M\u00f3ra, director of the Szeged Museum in 1931. Unfortunately no documentation preserved from this early excavation, but material from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3456,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/bronzeage-arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}