Bronze age vessel standing on anthropomorphic feet from Kunszentmárton |
The area of Kunszentmárton has been inhabited since the neolithic age. For the favourable essential conditions people of later times settled down willingly here, so the outskirts of the town is rich in findspots of different cultures.
Archaeological excavations have been carried out in the town and its outskirts since the middle of the 1800s. The finds from Nagyrév and Tiszainoka excited great interest, and local excavations began as far back as the 1860s. Archaeological Private Society of Tiszazug was formed in 1863 with the direction of Albert Kovách and Farkas Széll. A unique goldsmith's grave from the Avarian age was unearthed by Lajos Pájer, an amateur archaeologist from Kunszentmárton. Jenő Hillebrand excavated a cemetery from the copper age in Pusztaistvánháza in 1925. The importance of that excavation is great in the history of archaeology and culture, because that was the very first event when publishing a cemetery grave descriptions and grave-photos were also published. Gábor Csallány also excavated several times around Kunszentmárton. A bronze age settlement was discovered in Szelevény in the turn of the century. A noble Coman's grave was found in Kunszentmárton-Bábocka. Pál Raczky excavated the neolithic finds of Öcsöd-Kovácshalom in the beginning of the 1980s. Marietta Csányi and Pál Raczky unearthed the finds of the Sarmatian, bronze and Árpádian ages in Nagyrév-Zsidóhalom.
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