The Tisza culture is a

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several pa ...

archaeological culture An archaeological culture is a recurring assemblage of types of artifacts, buildings and monuments from a specific period and region that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society. The connection between thes ...

of the Alföld plain in modern-day

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, Western Romania, Eastern Slovakia, and Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast in

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. The culture is dated to between 4900 BCE and 4500/4400 BCE. __NOTOC__

Artefacts

File:Neolithic BHM pottery anthropomorphic IMG 0734.jpg, Anthropomorphic pottery File:Autel sacrificiel Szeged.jpg, Ceramic altar model File:Pehar potiske kulture, Borđoš.jpg, Tisza pottery

House reconstruction

File:Neolithic house in the M3 Archeopark.jpg, Tisza house reconstruction at Polgár-Csőszhalom, Hungary. File:Neolithic house, inside-6.jpg, House interior, reconstruction File:Neolithic house, inside-7.jpg, House interior, reconstruction File:Neolithic house, inside-2.jpg, House interior, reconstruction File:Neolithic house, inside.jpg, House interior, reconstruction File:Neolithic house, inside-3.jpg, House interior, reconstruction

Genetics

Lipson et al. (2017) analyzed the remains of five individuals ascribed to the Tisza culture. The three males were G-P15, I-P37 and I-P215.

mtDNA Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Mitochondrial DNA ...

extracted were various subclades of U, H, T, and K.

References

* * * Archaeological cultures of Central Europe Neolithic cultures of Europe Archaeological cultures in Hungary Archaeological cultures in Romania Archaeological cultures in Slovakia Archaeological cultures in Ukraine {{Hungary-stub sv:Bandkeramiska kulturen#Tiszakulturen