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In 1984, the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences decided to organize a comprehansive archaeological research program on settlements in the Great Hungarian Plain. The area of Gyomaendrőd in Békés County was selected for the purposes of this project. The study of this micro-region aimed at reconstructing changes over time in settlement structure as well as identifying settlement types that had coexisted during various archaeological periods. The chronological boundaries of this project extended from the Neolithic Period to the end of the Ottoman Turkish period in Hungary in the 17th century. -Foreword.