Folia archeologica 37.
Zsuzsanna Zoffmann: A Tiszavalk-tetesi rézkori temető embertani anyaga
ANIMAL REMAINS EROM TISZAVALK-TETES 91 Table 6. SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS DISTRIBUTION IN GRAVES (NUMBER OF GRAVES) Cemetery Number of graves pi g Sheep ^^ Au^ Tiszapolgár-Basatanva Tiszapolgár cultura Bodrogkeresztur culture Tiszavalk-Tetes -Kenderföld Magyarhomorog 60 36 40 28 17 5 11 96 30 33 12 18 3 _ 25 16 4 13 4 1 55 17 24 5 11 8 — 84 10 17 4 7 1 1 1. number of excavated graves, 2. number of graves with identified animal offerings, 3. numbers of all graves in which food offerings were observed during excavations. The occurrence of a distal aurochs scapula — that is the placing of part of the scapula in the grave — is oh interest. These bone parts may only be found in male graves. In the Tiszapolgár culture cemetery of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya, 11 graves contain distal scapula of aurochs 3 7. In 7 cases they were found together with pig; in 2 cases together with pig and cattle and in each cases co-occur with pig and small ruminants, as well as body parts of small ruminants. This funerary custom was not observed in the Bodrogkeresztúr culture cemetery of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya. The distal end of an aurochs scapula also came to light in grave 11 M of early Bodrogkeresztúr culture in the Magyarhomorog cemetery 3 8. Both aurochs scapulae were found together with sheep. The co-occurrence of cattle and sheep may only be observed in the TiszavalkTetes and Tiszavalk-Kenderföldek cemeteries (Table 7). Pig remains occur in equal proportions of nine graves each in both the Tiszapolgár and the Bodrogkeresztúr cultures of the Tiszapolgár-Basatanya cemetery. In the Tiszavalk-Tetes cemetery pig occurs in 3 graves: 12 M, 16 F, 23 F. In the Tiszavalk-Kenderföldek cemetery pig occur in 2 graves: 1 M and 51 F, as well as in the Magyarhomorog cemetery in only one grave 19 F without other animal remains. It is characteristic of the Bodrogkeresztúr culture that although pig began to lose its economic importance the "independent" placing of sheep (goat) body parts into the graves increased (Table 7). In the Tiszapolgár culture cemetery of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya pig occur in 6 cases: in 4 children's graves — 24, 31, 62, 64 — and in 2 women's graves — 27 and 76. In the Bodrogkeresztúr culture cemetery of the same site sheep (goat) occur independently in 15 graves: in 9 men's, 5 women's and in one man-woman double grave. Pig was not, however observed in children's graves at this site. In the Tiszavalk-Tetes cemetery eight of the graves contain "independent" sheep remains: 5 men's, 2 women's and one children's grave (Table 1., 2). In the Bognár - Kutyán 1963 381. 3 8 Period A, Patay 1975 187.
