Gáti Csilla (szerk.): A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 54., 2016-2017 (Pécs, 2017)
RÉGÉSZET - Viktor Wéber: Settlement of the Early Urnfield period at Majs–Borza-major (Southern Transdanubia, Hungary)
Settlement of the Early Urnfield period at Majs–Borza-major 197 cm, consisting mostly of charcoal and ashes, was found. A poorly preserved skeleton of a child was recovered in the north-western part of the pit, at a depth of 210 cm. According to the documentation, the child could have been about 90 cm tall (Fig. 3; Fig. 4/ 4–5). ?e excavator interpreted the feature as a pit house, which was secondarily used as a refuse pit. ?ere weren’t any observable layers in the infill and there were some matching pottery sherds from different depths, so it can be safely assumed that the pit was filled in during a single event, or at least during a relatively short period of time. More than 200 meter away to the south-west from the first pit, in Area 3b, another prehistoric pit was found in a 3 m long and 0,7 meter wide test trench, but it wasn’t excavated beyond the original borders of the trench (Fig. 1/ 3). ?e finds from the two features cannot be unambiguously separated due to the discrepancies in and amongst the find register of the excavation, the excavation journal and the catalogue of finds in the museum, but according to the excavation journal, it is safe to assume that almost all of the distinctive finds came from the completely excavated pit of Area 3a. ?e finds In the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs, 55 animal bones, 1 piece of stone (probably a sharpening stone), 5 pieces of daub and sherds from at least 60-70 pottery vessels can be found from the 1966 excavation of Majs–Borza-major. 1. Pots Pots from the site can be divided into two main types: pots with oval bodies or with rounded bodies and smooth transition to necks (Fig. 5/ 1–2), and pots with carinated neck-to-shoulder transition (Fig. 5/ 3–4). Most of the sherds though cannot be classified into these types, it can only be determined whether they had conical or cylindrical necks. Cylindrical necks are usually regarded as an earlier, while conical necks as a later feature in the Urnfield period ( Patek 1958: 416–417., Vadász 1992: 217–218., Kalicz-Schreiber et al. 2010: 250.). ?e most characteristic decoration on pots are cordons with fingertip impressions (Fig. 5/ 1–2; Fig. 9/ 1–2; Fig. 10/ 1–4), sometimes interrupted by lugs (Fig. 9/ 1–2) or, in one case, by a handle (Fig. 5/ 1). In the Drava region, sherds bearing cordons with fingertip impressions are more frequent in earlier assemblages and almost completely disappear in the Late Urnfield period ( Črešnar 2010: 35.).
