A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 42. (2003)

Csengeri Piroska: Az alföldi vonaldíszes kerámia kultúrája legkorábbi időszakának települése a Hernád völgyében (Előzetes jelentés a Novajidrányt elkerülő út mentén végzett 2002. évi leletmentésről)

with various size and forms. "Decorations" of coarse ware are "Sclickwurf", decoration pressed by finger without any pattern, inclined and V-shaped coarse incisions, finger-pressed ribs, incised motives of the fine ware in coarser elaboration, many knobs, and in one case a row of perforations running under the rim of a pot. There are many pieces of filtering vessels among the finds too (Fig. 12. 1-2.). Among the other ceramic finds have to be mentioned two weights from clay, many pieces of "clay rings" and three four-legged, decorated "altar". The most important however are the human representations - one application from the wall of a vessel in the shape of a human face and 16 human figures (Fig. 8. 1-3.). The "idols" are represented in various elaboration, forms and decoration. The body usually is flat and the statuettes represent standing human figures. It is important to mention the triangular heads with face depiction and a perforation above it, the primitive symbolic ("sickle") motif above two faces (Fig. 8. 2.), the representation of hair (Fig. 8. 2.) and clothes on some idols (Fig. 8. 2-3.) and the incised two parallel lines or bands on the back side of three human body (Fig. 8. 1-3.) that each are common in the northern unit of the ALP culture from the beginning of it to its end. A statuette with hollow body and fragmentation around the neck is unique in the Middle Neolithic material of the Carpathian basin. It probably had a removable head. Among the figures there is a piece of a "centaur-type" one too. The majority of idols presumably shape a woman figurine (Fig. 8. 1-3.). There are remains of white, black, red and yellow paints and their combinations on the surface of the statuettes. Similarly abundance and variety of human representations that were described above from Novajidrány have been known from only two other site of the earliest phase of ALP culture (Mezőkövesd-Mocsolyás and Füzesabony-Gubakút) so far. In sum we can establish that the settlement remain uncovered at Novajidrány in the Hernád valley (Northern Hungary) is the heritage of one of the earliest Neolithic communities of the north of the Caipathian basin and it has been the northernmost site from this period in Hungary so far. However extension and structure of this settlement could only be reconstructed by further investigations. Piroska Csenged 67