Bükk culture

Bükk culture (Hungarian: Bükki kultúra, Slovak: Bukovohorská kultúra, Ukrainian: Буковогірська культура) may have belonged to a dense pocket of Cro-Magnon type people inhabiting the Bükk mountains of Hungary (inner western Carpathians) and the upper Tisza and its tributaries.

By 5000 the LBK had replaced the Starcevo in the surrounding region and it influenced the Cro-Magnons in the Bükk culture.

Decoration consists of LBK patterns composed of bands that are both painted and engraved with fine lines.

The Cro-Magnons also owned abstract human figurines, in which geometric forms represent people.

These Cro-Magnons, as opposed to the Mesolithics of the Atlantic coast, are probably best regarded as men of the world, dominating the market for stone tools from their mountain retreats.

When not engaged in manufacture and trade, the Bükk people shared the same garden economy as the western variant.

Such a custom implies a belief in spiritual continuity and lends to the family a dimension in time as well as space.

In a 2017 genetic study published in Nature, the remains of five individuals ascribed to the Bükk culture was analyzed.