Riparian environment in shaping social and economic behavior during the first phase of the evolution of Late Neolithic tell complexes in SE Hungary (6th/5th millennia BC)

► Backgrounds of subsistence & cultural transformation and the role of second-line aquatic sources is highlighted for Late Neolithic farmers from the Carpathian Basin. ► A high reliance on aquatic resources, appearance of special features and spatial dislocation of houses to areas of higher elevation at sites in the SE Great Hungarian Plains parallel with cultural evolution could have been correlated with alteration in stream properties yielding successively higher floods, coevally with the 5.1 ky event.