Celto – Gallo – Roman Studies of The MTA-Elte Research Group for Interdisciplinary Archaeology, Edited by L. Borhy, K. Dévai, And K. Tankó (Recenzió)

Abstract

The Research Group for Interdisciplinary Archaeology – funded by Miklós Szabó in 1999 and jointly hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Science and the Eötvös Loránd University – has produced numerous results of significant scientific value, not only within the Hungarian, but also on the international scene. The present volume – published by L’Harmattan, Paris and edited by L. Borhy, K. Dévai and K. Tankó –, is a collection of 14 essays by 20 authors in English (9), French (3) and German (2) languages. The essays divide into the following thematic groups: research carried out by the French-Hungarian research group at the antique Bibracte (today Mont Beuvray) (2); numismatic and iconographic aspects of Romanization from 1 c. BC to 2 c. AD (1); the anthropological evaluation of the Late Iron Age cemetery in Povegliano (1); systematic excavations in Brigetio (today Komárom-Szőny), carried out by members of the Archaeological Institute of the Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities and the Gyorgy Klapka Museum in Komarom. Essays in the latter group concern the legionary fortress, the military town (canabae), the civil town (municipium), the cemeteries, the localization of earlier excavation sites, and material culture in general, and they demonstrate the extensive application of scientific methods (anthropology, aerial archaeology, and GIS), primarily in connection to investigations carried out in the past few years (9); the Barbaricum in the Late Roman period (1).