A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1980/81-1.(Szeged, 1984)

Régészet - Horváth, Ferenc: Ada-type Artifacts of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Alföld

However, while the chronologies are parallel there is still no relationship between the vessel forms. Mugs of a form almost identical to mug number 9/b can be found however, in the Somogyvár—

Vinkovci material of Ljubjana and Szava. At first glance the 9/a mug would suggest Pécel analogies but it was found in a closed grave context and certain other related Nagyrév forms contradict the possibility as well.

69 Although the exact equivalent of the 9/c mug is not known, such elements can also be found in the early Nagyrév—

Schneckenberg В pottery material.

60 The same form as the mug from Zombor has can be found in the Somogyvár—

Vinkovci material from Szava, too.

61 A pot from Zenta has its own form which is to be considered different from any other types and is without analoge. (T. VI: 1). We do not know of any exact analoge for the mug of Nosza (Nr. 14.,—

T. VII: 4.) too. TERRITORIES, CONNECTIONS AND CHRONOLOGIES During the course of our research, the first conclusions were drawn from site distributions. The sites listed here, are without exception located on the right bank of the Tisza river . The Makó group lived in the Tisza—Szárazér—Aranka triangle.

62 The people of the early Nagyrév culture lived to the north of this territory.

63 In other places between the Danube and the Tisza, in the neighborhood of Ada type, the Makó group, and early Nagyrév artifacts can also be found.

64 The southern boundary of this group of artifacts distribution is not exactly known. Aside from the strip on the right bank of the Tisa, Yugoslavian archaeologists also note an area of early Nagyrév settlements in Bácka. However the artifacts placed in this latter group are not always convincing. On the site map of Praistorija Vojvodine there are wide areas empty of sites between the clusters of Early Bronze Age settlements.

65 From the point of view of this study, the territories west of the Tisza are important. Considering that Ada is the most southernly located of the sites dealt with (100 kms from Vinkovci as well as Belegis!) it is an open question whether the southern border of this type of artifact is the Csik creek or the lower Danube. The latter is at the same time one of the borders of the Vinkovci group. In his most recent study, István Ecsedy has convincingly demonstrated the post-Vucedol I position of the Makó—

Kosihy

— Caka — Nyírség type of artifacts.

66 As can be seen by the site distribution map of the post-Vuöedol I period, no artifacts are known from the area of the middle and south of the territory between the Danube and Tisza rivers. This is the same area which is bordered by the Somogyvár—

Vinkovci culture and the distribution of Makó—

Kosi59 Form : Ondraâek (1965) Fig. 206/6 ; Illustration for the belly line circumscribed by a rib composed of a row of incised knobs: Bona (1963) PI. IV. 6, 9; PI. VII. 1. (Nagyrév); Prox (1941) Table XIV. 9. (the same rib on the neck of the vessel); Illustration for point of gravity at the handle's lower part: Bona (1972) Fig. 1,4; Bona (1965a) XV. t. 17, XVII. t. 6; Bona (1963) XI. t. 2/a; Ecsedy (1979a) Tablel.4, Table IX. 4; Roman (1976) Fig. 4/1; Schreiber (1972) Fig. 5/7, Figs. 2/1, 2/7, 2/10, 2/13, 2/16, Fig. 3/1; Tasié (1968) Fig. 13. 60 Bona (1965a) 25. 81 Ecsedy (1979a) Taf. 1.2. 8S Bona (1963) 14—19. 88 The Early Bronze Age settlement strata and cemetery of the Gorzsa tell provides us with an excellent opportonutity to shed light on these connections. Excavation on the site is already under way. 84 Tasié (1976) see also notes 52 and 53 with the comments belonging to them. 85 P. V. The distribution map of the Bronze Age cultures (between pages 184 and 185). 68 Ecsedy (1979a) 107—111. The same fact was pointed out by István Bona already in 1972 (Bona, 1972,13, paragraph 8.). 24