Pásztor Emília (szerk.): Sámánizmus és természethit régen és ma - Bajai dolgozatok 23. (Baja, 2019)

Peter Toth: Rituális tevékenység Szlovákiában a neolitikum és rézkor idején

Ritual practices in the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Slovakia

Fig. 21. Copper statuette of yoked ox from Liskovská cave, dated to the Epilengyel (after Struhár - Soják - Kucerová 2010, fig. 2).

21. kép. Járommal ellátott ökör figura rézből, Liskovská barlang, Epilengyel időszak (Struhár - Soják - Kucerová 2010, fig. 2).

or rituals (Kristuf 2005, 73; Neustupnÿ 2008, 22- 23). As an example can be mentioned exquisitely decorated (with needle etching ornament - Furchenstich - filled with white encrustation) pottery of the Bajc-Retz-Krepice group (fig. 23). The decoration was almost exclusively applied on pottery used for drinking. Therefore these vessels might have represented a festival or ceremonial drinking set. This hypothesis might be emphasized by decoration motifs, which sometimes depict human figurines or animal symbols (Zápotocky 2000, 611-612). As drinking set could be characterized a pottery depot found in a settlement pit of the Baden culture from Svodin. It consists of nine mugs and a dipper (Némejcová-Pavúková 1986, Abb. 11). A find assemblage from Vrbové dated to the Baden culture (the Boleráz group) might be connected with drinking ceremony. Eighteen vessels mostly related to drinking (eleven cups, two mugs, two jars, two amphorae, bowl) were reconstructed from 458 finds located in a settlement pit. Other vessels were unreconstructable. Noteworthy to mention is a pintadera with red color residues and bowl-like vessel with a perforated bottom (see below). From other finds found in the pit, four fragments of millstones could represent food production activities, and four spindle whorls and two loom weights representing textile production.

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