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WERE THERE “NOMADIC CAMPSITE CEMETERIES” IN HUNGARY DURING THE 10TH–12TH CENTURIES?

Summary/Abstract: László Kovács has recently proposed a classification of the 10th–12th-century cemeteries of Hungary and he associated one group of burial grounds with the nomadic campsites of the ancient Hungarians. The present author challenges this view, pointing out that the greater part of the ancient Hungarian population did not pursue a nomadic life-style at the time of the Conquest (895) and that hydrological conditions in the Carpathian Basin made any eastern-type nomadism impossible. Thus, the still nomadic groups of the ancient Hungarian population too became sedentary during the 10th century, meaning that the name given to the cemeteries in question is erroneous.

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