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!