Post-glacial warming up allowed the cultivation of plants and animal husbandary in the flat territories of the Carpathian Basin, as well. Nyíri Mezőség, which lies between Hortobágy, Nyírség and the eastern bank of the river Tisza, is one of the few regions that provide a wide range of excavated settlements and cemeteries from 5,000 B.C. up to the Middle Ages representing the development of the consecutive civilizations.