Time Geography: A reanalysis of spatial shift in the Great Hungarian Plain

In the 21st Century, Academic Archaeology has been characterized by two trends-an appreciation for scholarship outside the Anglo-American world, and continued utilization of interdisciplinary methods and theories. In the 1970’s, Swedish Geographer Torsten Hagerstrand introduced a conceptual framework that emphasized an individual’s existence as rooted in both time and space. Since then, Time Geography has allowed researchers to analyze and operationalize a number of currently favorable theoretical constructs, including agency, biography, and human relationships with space. Through a reanalysis of data collected on the Great Hungarian Plain, I intend to demonstrate the usefulness of Time Geography in examining a significant shift from the Late Neolithic to the Early Copper Age, highlighting a changing relationship between prehistoric human groups and their dynamic landscape.