NEOLITICKÉ OSÍDLENIE KOŠICKEJ KOTLINY V KONTEXTE KRAJINY. PRÍPAD TORYSKÁ PAHORKATINA

The study builds on the collected data about the landscape context of the Neolithic settlement in the Toryská pahorkatina hills. The database composed of variables of the morphometric and environmental subsystem should be used as a comparative material for further investigation focused on interaction of the Neolithic society and the landscape. The core of the study lies in the analysis of the collected data. In the first step, wide spatial relations of the Middle Neolithic settlement in the upper Tisza river basin are examined. They are represented by the Tiszadob group and the Bükk culture. Position of the Toryská pahorkatina hills is also sought. The second and essential part of the study presents the analysis of the landscape context of the Middle Neolithic settlement in the investigated region. The obtained collection of data is confronted with similar collections representing several regions with settlement by the Linear Pottery culture in Slovakia, Czechia and lesser Poland. The obtained results suggest differences from these regions and a more complex structure and dynamics of settlement than predicted by the common cultural-historical model of the Neolithic settlement in eastern Slovakia.