Farming and/or foraging? New environmental data to the life and economic transformation of Late Neolithic tell communities (Tisza Culture) in SE Hungary

► Backgrounds of increased foraging in settled Neolithic societies is discussed. ► Fluctuations in paleohydrologies of River Tisza reconstructed. ► Successively higher floods inferred parallel with site, economic evolution. ► Changes were beneficial for the immigration of large bodied ruminants hunted. ► Terminal floods might have contributed to the disruption of tells.