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Zsuzsanna Zoffmann: A Tiszavalk-tetesi rézkori temető embertani anyaga

88 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Table 4. BONE REMAINS FROM THE BODROGKERESZTUR CULTURE SITES (SPECIMENS) Cattle Sheep(goat) Pig Horse Dog TiszapolgárBasatanya cem. Bökönyil 1959 3 216 170 1 Tiszavalk-TETES cem. settl. 18 180 42 163 45 51 7 4 Tarnadob Derecske settl. settl. Bökönyi 1959 562 69 109 158 10 20 390 Aurochs Red deer Roe deer Wild boar Brown hare Beaver 240 1 270 4 7 3 743 83 43 12 31 2 188 20 Aves(Amphibia) Pisces Sum.: 390 1 1 241 15 12 297 171 3 917 21 209 As in other cemeteries, the graves of the Tiszavalk-Tetes cemetery have a linear order (Fig. I.)

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3. A West-East directionality can be observed in 6 rows of graves of the Tetes cemetery : row graves 1 14, 16 F 2 24, 8, 9 F, 15 12 M, 13, 22 F 3 25 F, 2 F, 10 M, 11 M, 17 M, 21, 20 4 3 F, 4 M 5 1 M, 5, 7 M, 18 F, 19 M 6 6, 23 F The 3rd row contains the most graves containing food offerings sits; a special feature of these graves is that in four of them — 25 F, 2 F, 10 M, 11 M — the animal parts were found in bowls or in hollow pedestalled bowls. Beside grave 10 M, are those graves which — as regards food offerings — are reminescent of 3

2 Patay 1978a Fig. 1. 3

3 Patay 1975 242., Id., A javarézkor néhány etnikai és időrendi kérdéséről. Some ethnical and chronological problems of the Middle Copper Age. Fol Arch 21(1970) 12, 18-20.