Abstract
Burial, residential, watch and border mounds called collectively “tumuli” (also “Cumanian hillocks” or “kurgans”) have been under protection in Hungary since 1996. They are special man-made landmarks of the steppes of Eurasia, including the Great Hungarian Plain. From an archaeological point of view, in many cases they preserve valuable remains of one-time loess steppes, and through studying the buried soils, their stratigraphy, and palaeoecology new data can be obtained on the ancient environment, flora and soil formation in the past. The buried soil profiles under burial mounds are the messengers of ancient landscape-forming factors, soil processes and palaeobotanical patterns. Results from palaeopedology, soil micromorphology, palaeobotany (phytolith analysis and palynology) and archaeology are summarised in order to understand how tumuli were constructed and what their former palaeoenvironment was like.
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Tóth, C., Joó, K., Barczi, A. (2015). Lyukas Mound: One of the Many Prehistoric Tumuli in the Great Plain. In: Lóczy, D. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Hungary. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08997-3_29
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