Gyulai Iván - Szakáll Sándor szerk.: Natura Borsodiensis I. (Miskolc, 1986)
VÖRÖS ISTVÁN: A Szerencs-Taktaföldvári későneolit telep állatcsontleletei
is probable aegagrus type domestic goata coning from Asia Minor and Hear East arrived soon into the Carpathian Basin since they have preserved the characteristics of their wild ancestors* She domestic goats were of larga body. The sheep were of small body, the peat-sheep type. The pigs were of middle size. On the basis of groupping the bones of domestic an1 mal s according to body regions it can be supposed that only the catties have been slaughtered and chopped on the unearthed part of the settlement, the small ruminants and the pigs were killed on an undiscovered part of the settlement or on territories outside it. The total sum of useful meat of domestic animals calibrated according to age-groups is 681o kgs. The variation of species of the hunted animals in Szerencs-Taktaföldvár corresponds to that of other settlements of the Tisza-culture in Hungary /Table 5./. The horse and the Anatolean kulan /or wild dondey?/ represent new elements in the variation of species of the Late Neolithic . The horses of the Heolithic are traditionally groupped among the wild mammals since from the sculpture and the measurements of the bones no trace of influence and result of domestication can be told. The appearance of the horses in Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age in Hungary can be in contact with the appearance of eastern European large herbivorian mammals in the subfossil wild fauna as colouring elements. The bone material from Szerencs-Taktaföldvár is kitchen midden. The traces of cutting during chopping the animals are concentrated on the elbow- and hambone regions. Some metapodium diaphyses of catties are polished in latero-medial direction. Shallow grooves, originating from application of the tool, can be observed on the polished surfaces running paralelly with the length axis of the bone. As for the vertical distribution, it is characteristic that the bones of small ruminants came from layers of the settlement units deeper than 75 cms /Table 2./. No bones of pig and only one bone of a small ruminant was found in the filling material of the 1st house in section I. On this area the bones of pigs and of small ruminants accumulated only after the total filling up of the house. The bone remnants of catties are culminating in the filling material of the 1st house in section I. and in the layer above it. The same distribution was observed in case of hunted animals as well.
