Folia archeologica 45.

Zsuzsanna K. Zoffmann: Embertani leletek a Tiszalúc-sarkadi neolitikus lelőhelyről

74 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS The "clear, daubed clay wall" (Fig. 2.

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2) described by Gallus turned out to be the lane between the houses. It was unusually thick for a wall (cca. 150 cm). On the same area, a real wall base was found as well (= Gallus 1943 Fig. 3b, "yellow clay" - eastern wall basement of house V/l and a "pseudo-wall" = Gallus 1943. Fig. 3b "daubed earth" - wrecks of layers fallen partly between the two houses and partly the place of the western wall of house V/2 (Fig. 3). In the so-called "standing wall", urns, pottery and kitchen debris were found. On the place marked as "9" (the lane between the houses), there were protruding heaps of clay and debris, many bones including "a complete leg of an animal" (the parts around the astragalus). Opening further parts of the wall, apart from a dishes built in the wall (II., III., VIII., Fig. 2), the skeleton of "two dogs"

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3 were found. At the spot marked 13 (= floor of house V/2), large heap of bones was found with a complete talus (animal bones). From the heap of debris between collecting spots 13 and 14 (= the lane between the houses), remains of a "fox" ( = dog) came to light

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4. The bone material excavated at the Kápolnahalom were brought in the same year, 1943, to the Palaeolithic collection of the Hungarian Geological Institute, probably to the hands of Maria Mottl, palaeontologist

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5. The "Füzesabony-Megyaszó type houses" mentioned by Gallus (level V., depth of 180-200 cm) were defined by Ilona Stanczik first as the closing horizon of the Füzesabony culture

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6, its last habitation level

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7, later as the first level of the Koszider period

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. Bone remains from the houses: Relatively small number of animal bones were collected from the houses altogether 86 pieces. They were clearly of two type of preservation state: f

, labelled "dog from the wall of the house", the incomplete skeleton of a dog comprised fragmented bones of light terracotta colour with burnt clay fragments - daub dust - on their surface. The skull of the dog and the mandibles were pressed together. 2, the other animal bones (29 pieces) were uniformly grey, with fine grey sand, soil remains and charcoal grains on their surface. The preservation of these bones and the surface contamination corresponds to the typical state of preservation of bones found in Bronze Age tells in Hungary. 2.1. House V/l "dog (offering) from the wall"- 57pieces The localisation of the "dog in the wall" could be placed, on the basis of the excavation documents, with great probability, to the basement of the eastern wall of the foreroom of house V/l, or in the thick floor in the vicinity of the wall.. Finds of the dog skeleton include: skull and mandibles, epistropheus (broken), 4 vert, cervicalis, 20 costa fr., sin. humerus-radius-ulna, 1

2 Gallus 1943b, Fig. 3b. 1

3 Gallus 1943b, 38. 1

4 Gallus 1943a. 1

5 László KORDOS draw attention to these finds and transferred them to the Archaeozoological Collection of the FINM. The author wants to express bis thanks for them. 1

6 Stanczik 1969a, 11-12, Stanczik 1972. 1

7 Stanczik 1976, 8. 1

8 Stanczik 1991, 38., Stanczik-Tárnoki 1992., 125.