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 Eneotithic in Slovakia

40 years old) and three vessels were found in a foundation ditch of one of the houses of the Zeliezovce group in Jelsovce. Traces of a deadly blow were visible above left eye tooth in the maxilla. As a result of it mandible was indirectly broken (Bátora 1999).

The Neolithic is concluded with the Lengyel culture. Social differences increased, and the regular population was buried in cemeteries. However, several individuals were placed into settlement pits. In all cases, they were young and adult women. In one pit in Svodin a young woman with a fracture on a forearm was deposited in one of them (Nérmejcová-Pavúková 1986, 144-145, 150). Scattered human bones with stray pottery finds are known from settlement pits in Luzianky and Nitra-Mlynárce (Novotny 1962, 162-163; Bánffy 1999-2000, 192-193). The true meaning of skeletons (either complete or incomplete) in settlement features remains hidden. For interpretation purposes should be considered a fact, that storage pits are vital facilities and usually serve for storing crops as a guarantee of the future harvest. Therefore humans (and animals) could be sacrifices which were placed in storage pits during

Fig. 27. Groundplans of main types of rondels of the Lengyel culture in Slovakia (after Kuzma 2005, obr. 14).

27. kép. A Lengyel kultúra körárkainak főbb típusai (Kuzma 2005, obr. 14).

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