8. CHRISTOPHER-BRONK RAMSEY
Information acquired: 2025
CHRISTOPHER-BRONK RAMSEY is an academic who published a paper in 2017 entitled Coa,,escent community at Alsónyék: the timings and duration of Lengyel burials and settlement. CHRISTOPHER-BRONK RAMSEY published this work as part of a team: Osztás, Anett. Here is a description of this work: The,,Neolithic settlement of Alsónyék reached its greatest extent during the Late Neolithic Lengyel period. Nearly 9000 features, including postholes associated with 122 houses, pits and pit complexes, and c. 2300 burials, could be assigned to it. The traces of Lengyel settlement and burials were found over the entire excavated area, with an estimated extent of some 80 ha. The burials uncovered mostly form part of groups of graves, actually being small cemeteries within the various parts of the settlement. Apart from the grave groups, several solitary or scattered graves were also found. Other large Lengyel burial grounds or large Lengyel settlements with numerous burials are known in Transdanubia, but the enormous number of graves at Alsónyék is unprecedented within the Lengyel cultural complex as a whole, and provides e.