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Condition survey by landscape history and site visiting of the ‘Kápolna-kurgan’
Ágnes KissGödöllő
2014
Generally about the kurgans
- Convex building, cultural history and heritage, landscape, wildlife protection
-Anthropogenic origin
-Eurasian steppes Hungary
- Great Plain (Tisza + its tributaries) Lake Fertő, Bakony, Bükk
Kurgans in Hungary
Source: A., Toth, 2006
Classification of genesis
residence burying-groundwatching over
marking of boundariesexecution
cult eventsgeodesy points
theatres and monuments of battles
-Lots of values endangered by consciously and not intentionally caused damages, incorporations, incorrect
farming, lawn breaking, and overgrazing
- Protection: several local initiatives, law decisions
- In the past: 40.000 kurgans in the Carpathian Basin; 2002: only 1692 kurgans in 14 county of Hungary
- Current problem (despite of the „ex lege” protection)
Own researches
http://rovoandras.honlapom.com/fejlec_2/rovoandras.jpg
- ’Kápolna-kurgan/mound’, Jászdózsa
-condition survey of the current state and the historical also, and I formulated some expressly
important proposals
soil survey: hand operated Pürckhauer soil sampler in 5 different sampling points examination and
hydrochloric acid test cross-sections
- community of the village quite hard effect
(disturbance, treading, and dissolution)
- 10-30 % of the mound is damaged
- Botanical survey: loess grassland associations (~70% disturbed)
- Inform the population and the hunters about the risk factors
- community events should avoid the vulnerable points
Thank you for your attention!