Geoarchaeological Analyses of a Late-Copper-Age Kurgan on the Great Hungarian Plain

Kurgans are the custodians of outstanding archaeological, natural and environmental-historical value in lowland landscape Eastern Europe, which has been continuously transformed over millennia by agricultural activity. Their protection study are, therefore, essential. By comparative soil sedimentological analysis levels buried during kurgans’ construction, soil, recent surface we can gain information on environmental changes second half Holocene; also about how activity humans, even case prehistoric cultures, cause environment a local scale, beyond regional scale. The aim our research was to conduct geoarchaeological examination Császárné Mound, is one kurgans Hungarian Great Plain. For this purpose, analyses (grain size distribution, magnetic susceptibility measurements), pollen analysis, malacological were carried out samples from Mound. complex investigation mound allowed us distinguish three different construction layers kurgan’s material. Besides archaeological results, able reconstruct steppe-like conditions before surroundings kurgan.