A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1971. 2. (Szeged, 1974)

Ecsedy, István: A New Item Relating the Connections with the East in the Hungarian Copper Age

Fig. 1. Csongrád-Kettőshalom. Fig. 2. Csongrád-Kettőshalom. Grave 1. Grave 1. from North (Photo : Katalin Nagy) dead and the existence of ochre. In our opinion, however, these two facts permit only the conclusion that the burial can be connected on the whole to the EastEuropean, more exactly to the Aeneolithic Age of the steppe as regards its ritual. The motives that can be reckoned in order to determine its more exact chronology date the Csongrád grave to an earlier date than the other so far excavated pit-grave kurgans. The complex having the nearest, probably direct relationship with the above described grave considering its geographical and general cultural aspect is the Copper Age cemetery, of Marosdécse (Decia Muresului), the connections of which with the east are known for a long time.

3 The first evidence that can be adduced concerning the relationship of the two complexes is a negative. Neither in Marosdécse nor in Csongrád there was not any trace of a kurgan on the grave and it is very likely that Csongrád—Kettőshalom as well as Marosdécse had a flat-grave burial place. In the furniture of the Marosdécse cemetery we can find the exact analogies of the limestone-beads as well as of the copper-beads. All these, of course, can be 3 Kovács, St., Cimitirul eneolitic delà Decia Mureçului. AISC I. 1928—1932. Cluj 1932. 89— 101. id., A marosdécsei rézkori temető. Közlemények. IV. 1—2. Kolozsvár 1944. 3—20. — The cemetery and its connections with the east are thoroughly dealt with by Ida B.

—Kutzián. See: Bognár-Kutzián, I., The copper Age Cemetery of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya. Budapest 1963. 442— 454. Further literature see theree. 10