Folia archeologica 28.

Ecsedy István: Korai rézkori sírok Szabolcsból

EARLY COPPER AGEGRAVES FROM SZABOLCS The ten Early Copper Age graves published here were found in the outskirts of the village Szabolcs (County Szabolcs, Nyíregyháza district) in the course of the excavations led by István Fodor in the campaigns of 1970 and 1971. On this spot called "Szabolcs-Kisfalud" a medieval settlement was investigated. The Copper Age graves were all disturbed by the medieval settlers. It is likely that the Copper Age cemetery was originally larger, but the northern part of the presentday excavation area has been annihilated by the inundations previous to the regulation of the Tisza river. The grave goods show the typical forms of the Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár culture, namely hollow pedestalled bowls with perforations on the pedestals, hollow pedestalled goblets, flowerpot-like vessels, jars with perforated knobs etc. Some of the vessels indicate that the people buried in this cemetery belonged to the Lucska group of the Tiszapolgár culture. These objects are the lids, the rectangular shaped deep bowl, the bell-shaped pedestals with their plastic ornament well known from Apagy-Nagysziget and Tibava. The material reflects the contacts between the Lucska and the Basatanya groups of the Tiszapolgár culture. The sites showing these interrelations were excavated in the Upper-Tisza region. As Ida Bognár-Kutzián has established in her basic work, this area had been shared by the Basatanya and the Lucska groups of the Tiszapolgár culture.