105 Archäologie in Eurasien 31 – 07_Starnini – Seite 105 – 27. 7. 15 Lithics from the Tell Site Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa (Southeast Hungary): Typology, Technology, Use and Raw Material Strategies during the Late Neolithic (Tisza Culture) Elisabetta Starnini, György Szakmány, Sándor Józsa, Zsolt Kasztovszky, Veronika Szilágyi, Boglárka Maróti, Barbara Voytek, Ferenc Horváth Abstract The paper summarizes the present state of the ongoing multidisciplinary research on the stone artefacts (chipped, polished and ground stone tools) from the excavation of the Late Neolithic tell settlement of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa, in southeastern Hungary. The excavated area re- presents the complete sequence of the Tisza culture, from its early phase to the later. More- over, the excavation showed that the settlement had a longer life and that it was also occupied during the Copper, Bronze, Iron, Sarmatian and Middle ages. Some lithic artefacts were col- lected and examined from these occupational horizons as well. However, in the present paper only the preliminary results of the Tisza culture artefacts will be illustrated. Our method of re- search involves a multidisciplinary, global ap- proach to the whole stone assemblage, that is, chipped, polished and ground tools, which were studied from the point of view of typology, tech- nology, use-wear and raw material analyses. These latter employed different archaeometric technologies, ranging from macro-, meso-, to microscopic scale descriptions. The results achieved until now have shown that a complex network of interactions was activated at Gorzsa during the entire Late Neolithic habitation, and that the courses of the Temes/Timi, Tisza and Maros rivers acted as main axes for establishing these connections. Fig. 1. 1 Map with the loca- tion of the tell Hódmezővá- sárhely-Gorzsa; 2 plan of the excavation squares; 3–4 the present geographical setting around the site.