Field of Dreams

After a two year hiatus due to Covid, we were finally able to make it back to Hungary and back to the field! As part of the Körös Consortium, the BAKOTA, KRAP, and PIPP projects combined forces for the past two weeks to work at the Late Neolithic sites of Vésztő-Mágor and Csökmő-Káposztás-domb, and the Bronze Age site of Békés-Várdomb. While two weeks doesn't sound like a lot, the weather gods favored us and gave us beautiful conditions, so we were able to begin the conservation work at Vésztő-Mágor, extensively tract walk, intensively surface collect 10x10m units, lay in multiple shovel test probes, and complete magnetometry at a couple of sites. We owe a huge thanks to the students from the University of Kiel and the University of Georgia (Martje, Ruby, Emil, and Victoria), to our friends in Vésztő (Béla, Marika, Golyó, and Sándor), to our amazing mag team (Máté, Misi, Bence, Borisz, and Gábor), to our new partners in archaeology from the University of Cardiff (Ashley and Jerrod), and to our friends and colleagues in Hungary who help make this research possible (János, Orsi, Györgyi, Laci, Dóri, Sanyi, András, Gergő, and so many more!). It has been an unbelievable season and we can't wait until we can come back again.

-D. J. Riebe