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Peter Toth: Rituális tevékenység Szlovákiában a neolitikum és rézkor idején

Ritual practices in the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Slovakia

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Abrahám corresponds very weil with anthropomorphic pottery. In connection with more intensive hunting activities during earlier stages of the Lengyel culture, there is a thought of a possible analogy to the ancient Greek goddess Artemis. As a patron of hunting she was represented together with game and among other animals with the bear, as well (Pavúk 1981, 47-48).

Vessels with animal body continuously appear during the Eneolitic, while maintaining the Neolithic links. A vessel from Pohronskÿ Ruskov (fig. 15) dated to the Epilengyel is allegedly denoted by two bird heads opposing each other on the maximum carination (Paulik 1980, 80). Peculiar is a hollow figurine dated to the Baden culture from Zvolen (fig. 16), which very realistically depicts a

Fig. 13. Alternation of human and animat representations on a storage vessel from Kosice-Barca-Cervenÿ Rak, dated to the Early AVK (modified after Kaminská - Kaczanowska - Koztowski 2008, fig. 7-8).

13. kép. Ember és állat alakú díszek tároló edényen, Kosice-Barca-Cervenÿ Rak, korai AVK (Kaminská - Kaczanowska - Koztowski 2008, fig. 7-8 nyomán).

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