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. 3. Csongrád-Kettőshalom. 1 = Obsidian 3 = Spondylus 2 = Copper 4 = Lime-stone regarded as the proofs of the cultural affinity in that case if we take them into consideration beside the most important features of the ritual. The facts that play the most important part are the characteristic laying of the dead, the oval-shaped grave and the use of ochre different from the pit-grave kurgans of the Great Hungarian Plain. Both the grave of Csongrád and those of the Marosdécse cementery contain a considerable quantity of red ochre discernible all over the area of the grave, on the skeleton as well as on the furniture; in addition we can find paint-knobs — as parts of the furniture of the dead — in extra knobs placed very likely in a small bag or pouch as we had already mentioned it above. A further similar feature is the placing 11