Folia archeologica 37.

Zsuzsanna Zoffmann: A Tiszavalk-tetesi rézkori temető embertani anyaga

92 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Table 7. THE CO-OCCURANCE OF SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL FROM DIFFERENT COPPER AGE CEMETERIES (NUMBER OF GRAVES) , . Tisza

valk Tiszapolgar- Kender- MagyarBasatanya Tetes föl H homorog ECA MCA eMCA игл N[C

A Pig 9 9 3 2 Pig-Sheep/Goat 8 3 — 1 Pig-Cattle — — — 1 Pig-Aurochs 7 _ Pig-Cattle-Aurochs 2 — — Pig-Sheep/Goat-Cattle 1 1 1 Pig-Sheep/Goat-Aurochs 1 — — — 28 12 4 5 Sheep/Goat 6 15 8 7 Cattle 1 3 _ 3 Sheep-Cattle — — 3 2 Sheep-Aurochs 1 — 1 — 8 18 12 12 Sum.: 36 30 16 17 Tiszavalk-Kenderföldek cemetery seven graves contained "independent" sheep remains: in 5 men's graves (small ruminants remains were found in 7 other men's graves

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9). These features are registered as graves but they have not so far been authenticated. In the Magyarhomorog cemetery 3 women's graves — 31, 51, 53 — contain "independent" small ruminant remains. At Tiszavalk-Tetes sheep do not co-occur with pig (Table 7). In the Tiszapolgár culture cemetery of the Tiszapolgár-Basatanya mandibles pig (jaws) occur in 26 graves and lower wild boar mandibles (jaws) occur in 4 graves; however in the Bodrogkeresztúr culture cemetery from the same site only 7 graves contain pig and/or wild boar lower mandibles (jaws). Pig and wild boar mandibles, which very important role in the funerary rites of the Tiszapolgár culture, are unknown from the transitional phase represented by the TiszavalkTetes cemetery. Dog killed and placed in the graves together with man corpses are missing in the Tetes cemetery. This custom is only known so far from graves the Tiszapolgár culture

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0. It is not clear from the publications whether the dog remains in the graves of the Tiszapolgár culture cemetery are complete or only parts of skeletons. The 150 dog bone specimens published by S. Bökönyi

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1 suggest partial skeletons. ™Paray 1978b 22- 27. 4

0 Bognár-Kutzián 1963 379-380., Id., 1972 154. 4

1 Bökönyi 1959 56.