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

2. The distribution of these artifacts seems to be independent and discrete (the area bordered by the Tisza, Dongér, and Csik creek), and complements with the Makó — early Nagyrév, Óbéba—Pitvaros and Vinkovci settlement area. Spatial overlap is apparent only with the Makó and Kó'törés groups (Sövényháza, Jánosszállás) and this reflects the chronological overlap as well. The Ada -type arose during the period of the Makó group and later in the time of the early Nagyrév —Bell Beaker

—Óbéba—Pitvaros—Somogyvár—Vinkovci II groups fused with the Kó'törés group which was forming at that time. 3. On the basis of these data one cannot determine with certainty whether the Ada type artifacts are variants of the Vinkovci group type ceramics wedged into the Makó—early Nagyrév area, or whether the Ada -type is the result of a specific local mixture of the Vinkovci group and the earliest Nagyrév culture. The third possibility is that the Ada group was an independent unit with close links to the Vinkovci group.

83 The artifacts chosen for study in this paper are far from including the whole of the material. Total understanding of the Ada-type ceramics which were produced during the period of the Makó group can only be based on the revision of the total early Bronze Age material and the systematic verification and authentication of the sites known from the periods considered here. ABBREVIATIONS =Acta Antiqua et Archaeologica, Szeged. =Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Budapest. = Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, Krakow. =Archeológia Értesítő, Budapest. = Archeologické rozhledy, Praha. = Archaeologia Hungarica. Dissertationes Archaeologicae Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Budapest. = Archaelogia Jugoslavica, Beograd. =

Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Köln. =Dolgozatok, Szeged. = Fontes Archaeologici Hungáriáé, Budapest. — Istrazivanja. Filozofski Fakultét u Novom Sadu Institut za Istoriju,Novi Sad. =

Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve (Annales Musei de Iano Pannonio Nominati), Pécs. =A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve (Annales du Musée Ferenc Móra) Szeged = A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Régészeti Adattára (Documentation Department of the Móra Ferenc Museum), Szeged. =Preistorija Vojvodine, Növi Sad, 1974, Brukner—Jovanovió—Tasié: —

Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Berlin. — Rad Vojvodanszkih Muzeja, Növi Sad. = A Szeged városi Múzeum régiség- és történelmi emléktárának Naplója I. 1883—1906 (The Archaeological and Historical Monument Notes of the Szeged City Museum). MFMRA. = Somogyi Múzeumok Közleményei (Mitteilungen der Museen des Komitates Somogy), Kaposvár. = A Szekszárdi Béri Balogh Ádám Múzeum Évkönyve (Annales Musei Szekszárdiensis de Béri Balogh Ádám Nominati), Szekszárd. = Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoripues. 83 One of the keys which proves most useful in separating out the type is the fact that the Belegis material contains both Somogyvár—Vinkovci and Nagyrév culture elements. The Belegis assemblage of finds being transitional, has at times been included in the Vinkovci culture and at other times is the Nagyrév type ware. Publishing of the Velebit grave (which although cited several times, has remained unpublished so far) would also help to solve this question. Lastly we consider it important to mention Tasic's (1972,11) opinion in the context of the Ada type : „... it possible to infer that Baőka saw the development of a local phase of the Nagyrév or Somogyvár group at the time of the Moris' and Vinkovci groups." Acta Ant. et Arch. Acta Arch. AAC AÉ AR Arch. Hung. Arch. Jug. BRGK Dolg. Fontes Arch. Hung. Istrazivanja JPMÉ MFMÉ MFMRA PV PZ RADVM RN SMK SzekMÉ UISPP 28