Collection of Neolithic site coordinates in the Carpathian Basin (LBK, Lengyel I/II and rondels)

README

This dataset includes mainly site coordinates and literature used for my master's thesis, submitted at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University on March 21st, 2025. In Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia 4275 sites with a rough dating from approx. 5700 to 4400 BC have been collected and used for spatial analysis and modelling (code for analysis at Codeberg.org). Settlement and rondel data are sorted into different .csv files based on their dating or category. All coordinates are in WGS 84/ UTM zone 33N (EPSG: 32633) and Well-Known-Text format. The data is licensed with CC-BY 4.0.

This data collection contains a part of the "Neolithic Settlements in Central Europe: Data from the Project 'Lifestyle as an Unintentional Identity in the Neolithic'" dataset created by Trampota and Pajdla 2021. Also, the data on Hungarian sites is taken from the Hungarian National Database, which does not allow open publishing of coordinates. Therefore the coordinates for Hungarian sites are not included, but can be reconstructed through the provided links in the references. Any researcher can apply very easily for a third level account at the database and get acces to the coordinates.

Data description

id: primary key

site_name: name of the sites

site_type: settlement or rondel

country: country of observation

county: next smaller administrative region

district: next smaller administrative region

muncipality: next smaller administrative region

corridor: field or terrain name

dating: rough (!) dating of sites into LBK or Lengyel, rondels a bit more precise

wkt_32633: coordinate data in WKT EPSG: 32633

coord_qual: quality of recoreded coordinate ranging from 1 (best) to 4 (worst)

approx_dev_m: approximated radius in where the site should be located

arch_measures: recorded archaeological measures done on the site

source: source for data collection, e.g. catalogue

source_site_nr: site number from source

literature: scientific literature on the site