ÖKOLÓGIAI MÓDSZEREK A RÉGÉSZETBEN - ESETTANULMÁNY A DUNAKESZI-SZÉKES-DŰLŐ ŐSKORI TELEPÜLÉSEIRŐL ELŐKERÜLT ÁLLATMARADVÁNYOK KAPCSÁN
ECOLOGICAL METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY - CASE STUDY OF THE ANIMAL REMAINS FROM DUNAKESZI-SZÉKES-DŰLŐ

Summary/Abstract: This paper considered a case study of animal bone finds from the prehistoric (Neolithic, Eneolithic, Middle and Late Bronze Age) settlements of Dunakeszi-Székes-dűlő. More than 7000 animal bone specimens were come to light from these excavations. The most important animals of the settlement were the cattle (Bos taurus L.), the small ruminants (Ovis aries L. and Capra hircus L.), and the pig (Sus domesticus Erxl.). The man and his closely environment have special interactions and feedbacks with each other. The human culture, the natural environment, and the domestic animals live in a special ecosystem what is depending from these entities (Fig. 1). The most important economic animals were in special multidimensional cultural and niche-like places, what is similar than the niche in the ecology (Fig. 2). These places determined the social status and the exploitation of these animals.

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