A CEMETERY BELONGING TO AN NOMAND COMMUNITY OF EASTERN EUROPE STEPPE ORIGIN IN THE MIDDLE TISA REGION (MAKÓ, MIKÓCSA-HALOM, HUNGARY)

In a cemetery excavated in 2010 in the region of Middle Theis, Körös and Maros Rivers in Hungary, 207 Avar graves came to light. Graves, burial customs and archeological materials of the cemetery show similarities to the graves and burial customs of the Eastern European steppes. On the basis of coins and findings from the graves the cemetery can be dated between 568–630. The cemetery shows similarities to the cemeteries with niche grave of the other population lived between the Körös–Theis–Maros Rivers. This nomadic community settled in the western site of the Theis river must have joined the Avars of Turkic origin somewhere in the steppes of Eastern Europe during the westward migration of the Avars.