Book Launch – Confinia et Horizontes

Book Launch, Monday 13 October 2025, 18.00 CET

Budapest Research Unit of the Romano-Germanic Commission, Budapest

The third volume of the Confinia et horizontes series presents a comprehensive study of over 6,200 chipped stone artefacts from the Late Neolithic period (4800–4500 cal BC), associated with the Lengyel community at the Alsónyék-Bátaszék site in southeast Transdanubia (Hungary). Kata Furholt meticulously reconstructs the successive phases of the chaîne opératoire of raw material procurement, production, use, and discard / deposition, with particular attention to the patterns of deposition in burial context. The study highlights the significance of the Alsónyék site as a regional hub for material exchange and mortuary rituals and helps to better understand the social and cognitive transformations during the fifth millennium BC in the western half of the Carpathian Basin.

This volume will be introduced during the Annual Conference of the DAI Research Cluster “Body and Death” at the RGK Research Unit Budapest. Together with the author, presenters will be Gabriella Kulcsár, director of the Institute of Archaeology at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities; Eszter Bánffy, head of the RGK Research Unit Budapest, and Alexander Gramsch, Editorial Office of the RGK.