Tiszapolgár culture

The Tiszapolgár culture or Tiszapolgár-Româneşti culture (4500–4000 BC) was an Eneolithic archaeological culture of the Great Hungarian Plain, the Banat, Eastern Slovakia and Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast in Central Europe.

Tiszapolgár culture
PeriodEneolithic
Dates4500-4000 BC
Preceded byTisza culture
Followed byBodrogkeresztúr culture
Eneolithic cultures of Southeastern Europe, with major archaeological sites (including typesites)

The type site Tiszapolgár-Basatanya is a locality in northeastern Hungary (Polgár). It is a continuation of the earlier Neolithic Tisza culture. The type site Româneşti is in the Româneşti-Tomeşti locality, Timiș County, Romania.

Most of the information about the Tiszapolgár culture comes from cemeteries; over 150 individual graves have been being excavated at Tiszapolgár-Basatanya. The pottery is unpainted, but often polished and frequently decorated.

Genetics

Lipson et al. (2017) found in the remains of five individuals ascribed to the Tiszapolgár culture three G2a2b and a subclade of it, and two I2a and a subclade of it. Of the five samples of mtDNA extracted, three belonged to T21c, one belonged to H26, and one belonged to H1.[1][2]

See also

Bibliography


  1. Lipson 2017.
  2. Narasimhan 2019.
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