Aszód

A Late Neolithic site (4th millennium BC) in the Zagyva Valley, 30 km east of Budapest, Hungary. There are remains of a settlement with 40 rectangular houses containing rich assemblages and a cemetery with rows of graves. There are varying degrees of wealth in the grave goods. Aszód is a rare example of a site east of the Danube River with a western Hungarian material culture.

An important early Lengyel site on a plateau overlooking the Zagyva Valley, 30 km east of Budapest in Hungary, of the Late Neolithic (4th millennium bc). Aszód comprises both settlement and cemetery. Excavated by N. Kalicz, the settlement has over 40 rectangular houses, with rich domestic assemblages including a large collection of bone and antler tools. The medium-sized cemetery is at least partly organized in rows of graves, interpreted as family groupings, with varying degrees of wealth in grave goods. In most periods of Hungarian prehistory, western and eastern Hungary were separated culturally, as physically, by the infertile Danube-Tisza Interfluve. Aszód is one of the rare examples of a site east of the Danube with west Hungarian material culture.