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Publications

Parkinson, William A., Attila Gyucha, and Richard Yerkes (editors). Submitted. Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain. Edited volume summarizing the results of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project research at Vésztő-Bikeri and Körösladány-Bikeri with chapters by several authors. Approximately half the chapters are authored or co-authored by Parkinson. Submitted to the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Monumenta Archaeologica Series, June 21, 2017. Accepted, January, 2018.

 

Attila Gyucha. In press. Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction. In: Coming Together: Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization, edited by Attila Gyucha. SUNY Press IEMA Proceedings Series, Winter 2017.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and Zoltán Rózsa. In press. Archaeology, History, and Invasion: The Archaeological Implications of the Mongol Campaign in AD 1241-42 on the Hungarian Kingdom. In: Proceedings of session entitled ‘War! Conflict Archeology and its Role in the Study of the Past and Present of Europe’ at the 18th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Submitted in October 2012.

 

Parkinson, William A., Attila Gyucha, Panagiotis Karkanas, Nikos Papadopoulos, Georgia Tsartsidou, Apostolos Sarris, Paul Duffy, and Richard W. Yerkes. 2018. A Landscape of Tells: Geophysics and Microstratigraphy at Two Neolithic Tell Sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. In a Special Issue entitled “Geography on a Human Scale: Global Case Studies Exploring Landscape Archaeology,” edited by Lisa Fontes and Rachel Horowitz. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19 (2018) 903-924. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.07.002

 

Parkinson, William A., William Ridge, and Attila Gyucha. 2018. Village Nucleation and Centralization in the Later Neolithic of Southeastern Europe: A Long-Term, Comparative, Approach. In Communities in Transition: The Circum-Aegean Later Neolithic Stages, edited by S. Dietz, F. Mavridis, and Z. Tankosic, pp. 17-26. Oxford: Oxbow.

 

Parkinson, William A. 2018. Continent, Region, Micro-Region, Site: Settlement Nucleation in the European Neolithic. In Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honor of John F. Cherry, edited by Alex. R. Knodell and Thomas P. Leppard, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology, pp. 94-108. Bristol, CT: Equinox.

 

Salisbury, Roderick B. 2016. Soilscapes in Archaeology: Settlement and Social Organization in the Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain. Prehistoric Research in the Körös Region, Volume III. Archaeolingua Publishing House, Budapest, Hungary. Submitted Winter, 2015.

 

Salisbury, Roderick B., Paul R. Duffy, Attila Gyucha, and William A. Parkinson. 2015. HARC – the Hungarian Archaeological Research Circle developing regional archaeological practice. The European Archaeologist 44, 23-25.

 

Gyucha, Attila. 2015. Prehistoric Village Social Dynamics: The Early Copper Age in the Körös Region. Prehistoric Research in the Körös Region, Volume II. Archaeolingua Publishing House, Budapest, Hungary.

 

Sarris, Apostolos, Nikos Papadopoulos, William A. Parkinson, Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, Gábor Bácsmegi, Francois-Xavier Simon, Paul R. Duffy, and Rod Salisbury. 2015. Unfolding the Neolithic Wetlands Landscape of Szeghalom-Kovácshalom in Hungary. Archaeologia Polona 53(2015): 360-364.

 

Gyucha, Attila, Richard W. Yerkes, William A. Parkinson, Nikos Papdopoulos, Apostolos Sarris, Paul R. Duffy and Roderick B. Salisbury. 2015. Settlement Nucleation in the Neolithic: A Preliminary Report of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project’s Investigations at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom and Vésztő-Mágor. In Neolithic and Copper Age between the Carpathians and the Aegean Sea. Chronologies and Technologies from the 6th to the 4th Millennium BCE. International Workshop Budapest 2012, edited by Svend Hansen, Pál Raczky, Alexandra Anders, and Agathe Reingruber. Archäologie in Eurasien 31, pp. 129-142. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt.

 

Duffy, Paul R. 2014. Complexity and Autonomy in the European Bronze Age. Prehistoric Research in the Körös Region, Volume I. Archaeolingua Publishing House, Budapest, Hungary.

 

Papadopoulos, N.G., A. Sarris, W.A. Parkinson, A. Gyucha, R.W. Yerkes, P.R. Duffy and P. Tsourlos. 2014. Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Modelling of Cultural Deposits and Geomorphological Landscapes at Neolithic Sites: A Case Study from Southeastern Hungary. Archaeological Prospection 21:169-183.

 

Kreiter, Attila, Danielle J. Riebe, William A. Parkinson, Ákos Pető, Mária Tóth, Péter Pánczél, and Eszter Bánffy. 2014. Unique in its Chaîne Opératoire, Unique in its Symbolism: Undressing a Figurine from the 6th Millennium BC Körös Culture, Hungary. Journal of Archaeological Science 44 (2014): 136-147.

 

Gyucha, Attila, Paul Duffy, and William A. Parkinson. 2014. Prehistoric Human-Environmental Interactions on the Great Hungarian Plain. Anthropologie (Prague) LI/2: 157-168.

                                                                                               

Gyucha, Attila, William A. Parkinson, and Richard W. Yerkes. 2014. The Transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Copper Age: Multidisciplinary Investigations in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain. In: The Neolithic and Eneolithic in Southeast Europe. New Approaches to Dating and Cultural Dynamics in the 6th to 4th Millennium BC, edited by Wolfram Schier, and Florin Draşovean, pp. 273-296. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2014. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztő-Mágoron, 2014). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research at Vésztő-Mágor, 2014). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, HungaryGyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson

 

Sarris, Apostolos, Nikos Papdopoulos, Athos Agapiou, Maria Cristina Salvi, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, William A. Parkinson, Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, and Paull R. Duffy. 2013. Integration of Geophysical Surveys, Ground Hyperspectral Measurements, Aerial and Satellite Imagery for Archaeological Prospection of Prehistoric Sites: The Case Study of Vésztő-Mágor Tell, Hungary. Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (2013): 1454-1470.

 

Papdopoulos, Nikos, Apostolos Sarris, William Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard Yerkes. 2013. Electrical Resistivity Tomography as a Tool to Reconstruct the Palaeoenvironment of Neolithic Sites. In Archaeological Prospection: Proceedings of the International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, Vienna, May 29th-June 2nd 2013, edited by Wolfgang Neubauer, Immo Trinks, Roderick B. Salisbury, and Christina Einwögerer, pp. 390-393. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.

 

Duffy, Paul R., William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, and Richard W. Yerkes. 2013. Coming Together, Falling Apart: A Multiscalar Approach to Prehistoric Aggregation and Interaction on the Great Hungarian Plain. In From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlment Aggregation and Community Transformation, edited by Jennifer Birch, pp. 44-62. New York: Routledge.

 

Gyucha, Attila and William A. Parkinson. 2013. Archaeological “Cultures” and the Study of Social Interaction: The Emergence of the Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár Culture. In Moments in Time: Papers Presented to Pál Raczky on His 60th Birthday, Prehistoric Studies I, edited by Alexandra Anders and Gabriella Kulcsár, pp. 521-538. Budapest: L’Harmattan.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2013. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Szeghalom-Kovácshalomon, 2013). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom, 2013). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, HungaryGyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson

 

Parkinson, William A., and Attila Gyucha. 2012.  Long-Term Social Dynamics and the Emergence of Hereditary Inequality: A Prehistoric Example from the Carpathian Basin. In Beyond Elites: Alternatives to Hierarchical Systems in Modeling Social Formations, The Proceedings of an International Conference at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, October 22-24, 2009, edited by Tobias Keinlin, pp. 243-250. Bochum, Germany: Ruhr-Universität.

 

Parkinson, William A., and Attila Gyucha. 2012. Tells in Perspective: Long-Term Patterns of Settlement Nucleation and Dispersal in Central and Southeast Europe. In Tells: Social and Environmental Space, edited by R. Hoffman, F.-K. Moetz and J. Müller. Proceedings of the International Workshop “Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes II, March 14-18, 2011, Kiel. Volume 3, pp. 105-116. Bonn, Germany: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2012. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Szeghalom-Kovácshalomon, 2012). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom, 2012). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2011. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Szeghalom-Kovácshalomon, 2011). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom, 2011). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Gyucha, Attila, Paul R. Duffy, and Tod Frolking. 2011. The Körös Basin from the Neolithic to the Hapsburgs: Linking Settlement Distributions with Pre-Regulation Hydrology Through Multiple Data Set Overlay. Geoarchaeology 26 (3), 392-419.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2010. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Szeghalom-Kovácshalomon, 2010). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research at Szeghalom-Kovácshalom, 2010). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Parkinson, William A., Richard W. Yerkes, Attila Gyucha, Apostolos Sarris, Margaret Morris  and Roderick Salisbury. 2010. Early Copper Age Settlements on the Great Hungarian Plain: The Körös Regional Archaeological Project, 2000-2006. Journal of Field Archaeology 35(2): 164-183.

 

Gyucha, Attila, William A. Parkinson, and Richard W. Yerkes. 2009. A Multi-Scalar Approach to Settlement Pattern Analysis: The Transition from the Late Neolithic to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain. In Reimagining Regional Analysis, edited by T. Thurston and R. Salisbury, pp. 100-129. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

Yerkes, Richard W., Attila Gyucha, and William A. Parkinson. 2009. A Multi-Scalar Approach to Modeling the End of the Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain Using Calibrated Radiocarbon Dates. Radiocarbon 51 (2009): 1071-1109.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and Paul R. Duffy. 2008. A Körös-vidék holocénkori vízrajza/The Holocene Paleohidrology of the Körös Region. In: Körös-menti évezredek. Régészeti ökológiai és településtörténeti vizsgálatok a Körös-vidéken/Millenia Along the Köröses. Ecological and Settlement Historical Investigations in the Körös Region, edited by Gergely Bóka and Emília Martyin. Gyulai katalógusok 13, pp. 11-40.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2008. A Körös-Vidék Településhálózatának Változásai a Kr. e. 5. Évezredben. In Körös-Menti Évezredek: Régészeti Ökológiai és Településtörténeti Kutatások a Körös-Vidéken, edited by Attila Gyucha, pp. 65-106. Gyulai Katalógusok 13, Gyula, Hungary: Békés Megyei Múzeum.

 

Gyucha, Attila, Gábor Bácsmegi, Ottó Fogas, and William A. Parkinson. 2007. Építéstechnikai és településtörténeti megfigyelések egy kora rézkori alföldi lelőhelyen/Architectural and Settlement Historical Observations at an Early Copper Age Site on the Great Hungarian Plain. Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 30, 67-110.

 

Parkinson, William A., and Gyucha Attila. 2007. A Kés Neolitikum-Kora Rézkor Átmeneti Idszakának Társadalomszerkezeti Változásai az Alföldön. Rekonstrukciós Kísérlet (Changes in Social Organization During the Transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Copper Age Periods on the Great Hungarian Plain: An Attempt at a Reconstruction). Archaeológiai Értesít 132(1): 37-81.

 

Yerkes, Richard, W., William A. Parkinson, Apostolos Sarris, Attila Gyucha, Meredith Hardy, and Luigi Catanoso. 2007. Geophysical and Geochemical Investigations at Two Early Copper Age Settlements in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary. Geoarchaeology 22(8): 845-871.

 

Gyucha, Attila, Gábor Bácsmegi, Ottó Fogas, and William A. Parkinson. 2007 Építéstechnikai és Településtörténeti Megfigyelések egy Alföldi Kora Rézkori Lelőhelyen (Observations on Construction Technology and Settlement History at an Early Copper Age Settlement on the Great Hungarian Plain). Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 30 (2007): 67-110

 

Parkinson, William A., and Paul R. Duffy. 2007. Fortifications and Enclosures in European Prehistory: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Journal of Archaeological Research 15: 97-141.

 

Parkinson, William A. 2006. The Social Organization of Early Copper Age Tribes on the Great Hungarian Plain, BAR International Series 1573. Oxford: Archaeopress.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2006. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztn, 2006: Régészti Anyagi Vizsgálat Körösladány-Bikeri-bl (Körösladány 14). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2006: Archaeological Materials Analyses from Körösladány-Bikeri (Körösladány 14). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Parkinson, William A. 2006. Tribal Boundaries: Stylistic Variability and Social Boundary Maintenance During the Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25(2006): 33-58.

 

Gyucha, Attila, Gábor Bácsmegi, Ottó Fogas, and William A. Parkinson. 2006 House Construction and Settlement Patterns on an Early Copper Age Site in the Great Hungarian Plain. Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae 2006: 5-28.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2005. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztn, 2005: Régészti Anyagi Vizsgálat Körösladány-Bikeri-bl (Körösladány 14). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2005: Archaeological Materials Analyses from Körösladány-Bikeri (Körösladány 14). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Gyucha, Attila, William A. Parkinson, and Richard Yerkes. 2004. Kora Rézkori Településkutatás a Dél-Alföldön. Elzetes Jelentés A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program 1998-2002 Között Végzett Munkájáról (Preleminary Results of The Körös Regional Archaeological Project, 1998-2002). Studia Archaeologica X (2004): 25-52.

 

Parkinson, William A., Attila Gyucha, Richard W. Yerkes, Meredith Hardy, and Margaret Morris. 2004. Settlement Reorganization at the End of the Neolithic in Central Europe: Recent Research in the Körös River Valley, Southeastern Hungary. Journal of Eurasian Prehistory 2(2): 57-73.

 

Sarris, Apostolos, Michael Galaty, Richard Yerkes, William Parkinson, Attila Gyucha, Doc Billingsley, and Robert Tate. 2004. Geophysical Prospection and Soil Chemistry at the Early Copper Age Settlement of Vészt-Bikeri, Southeastern Hungary.  Journal of Archaeological Science 31(7): 927-939.

 

Parkinson, William A., Richard Yerkes, and Attila Gyucha. 2004. The Transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age: Excavations at Vészt-Bikeri, Hungary, 2000-2002. Journal of Field Archaeology, Volume 29, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring and Summer, 2002-2004: 101-121.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2004. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztőn, 2004: Régészti Anyagi Vizsgálat Vészt-Bikeri-bl (Vészt 20). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2004: Archaeological Materials Analyses from Vészt-Bikeri (Vészt 20). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2003. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztn, 2003: Ásatás Vészt-Bikeri-ben (Vészt 20). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2003: Excavations at Vészt-Bikeri (Vészt 20). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Parkinson, William A. 2003a. The Late Neolithic and Copper Age in Southeastern Europe. In Ancient Europe, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. Crabtree, pp. 334-340. Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

2003b. The Copper Mines at Rudna Glava and Aibunar. In Ancient Europe, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. Crabtree, p. 322. Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

2003c. Early Metallurgy in Southeastern Europe. In Ancient Europe, 8,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. Crabtree, pp. 317-321. Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

 

Parkinson, William A., (Editor). 2002. The Archaeology of Tribal Societies. Archaeological Series, Number 15. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.

 

Parkinson, William, Attila Gyucha, and Richard Yerkes. 2002. The Neolithic-Copper Age Transition on the Great Hungarian Plain: Recent Excavations at Vészt-Bikeri, a Tiszapolgár Culture Settlement Site.  Antiquity 76(2002): 619-620.

 

Parkinson, William A. 2002a. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling’: The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain. In The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W. Parkinson, pp. 391-438. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.

2002b                   Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies. In The Archaeology of Tribal Societies, edited by W. Parkinson, pp. 1-12. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2002. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztn, 2002: Ásatás Vészt-Bikeri-ben (Vészt 20) és Körösladány-Bikeri-ben. (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2002: Excavations at Vészt-Bikeri (Vészt 20) and Körösladány-Bikeri (Körösladány 14)). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Gyucha, Attila. 2001. Békés megye őskora/The Prehistory of Békés County. In: Békés megye képes krónikája/The Illustrated Chronicle of Békés County, edited by Gyula Erdmann, and Péter Havassy. Békéscsaba, pp. 7-30.

 

Parkinson, William A. 2001. Modeling Social Interaction from Stylistic Attributes in the Early Copper Age of the Great Hungarian Plain. La Tinaja: A Newsletter of Archaeological Ceramics 13 (1):1-4.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2001. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztn, 2001: Ásatás Vészt-Bikeri-ben (Vészt 20) és Körösladány-Bikeri-ben. (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2001: Excavations at Vészt-Bikeri (Vészt 20) and Körösladány-Bikeri (Körösladány 14)). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.

 

Gyucha, Attila, and William A. Parkinson. 2000. A Körös Regionális Régészeti Program Kutatás Vésztn, 2000: Ásatás Vészt-Bikeri-ben (Vészt 20). (Körös Regional Archaeological Project Research in Vészt, 2000: Excavations at Vészt-Bikeri (Vészt 20). Report submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and on file at the Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba, Hungary.