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has driven the man of the Pécel culture away in its turn, and has occupied this region under the leadership of its oriental chief, deposited in a burial-mound together with a cord-ornamented vessel. Along the Tisza the Pitvaros folk came to a fruitful contact with the Nagyrév people (also practising cremation burial) soon. At the beginning early Nagyrév (ökörhalom type) vases have reached the Pitvaros people and their graves, later one may observe significant influences of Pitvaros pottery in that of the Kőtörés group of the Nagyrév culture and vice versa. The last Nagyrév connections are noticed as regards the folk of the Kulcs group. Then the selfstanding development of the Pitvaros group has come to a sudden end. It was 1. The Somogyvár group is a new denomination in Hungarian research on the Bronze Age. Its most important finds were unpublished so far, some of its vases have been presented in a different connection. The author of the present study was the first to characterize it as the earliest study was the first to., characterize it as the earliest Western Hungarian group and to mention it by the name of the Somogyvár-Gönyű group.

1 For simplicity's sake we shall refer to the group by its former the most significant, site in the following. 2. The sites of the group Somogyvár (Somogy county) From an exactly undefined spot of the locality, probably from the vine-covered Kupavár, encircled by a rampart wall in the Early Iron Age, F. Göndöcs, a schoolmaster at Somogyvár has presented vases and potsherds the RipplRónai Museum, Kaposvár, for several years. The finds have a homogeneous character, they have evidently been collected from a sandpit in constant use They are enumerated here in the sequence of the donations. 1926. 1. A vase of cylindrical shape or of a high truncated cone respectively, its rim is fragmentary. Inv. no. 4444 (old Inv. no. 300). Its surface is ornamented with incised zigzag patterns (PI. XI no. 5). 1928, gift No. 1. 1 Diss Arch. 2 (1960) 49-50; AUSBSH 3 (1961) 7-8: Jubilary Book of the Göcsej Museum (1960) 85-92, 94. at this time that the folk of the Perjámos culture immigrated to the Maros region from the Banate, conquering the entire area of the Pitvaros group. The Pitvaros cemeteries are discontinued, the Perjámos settlements are not based on Pitvaros foundations. Nevertheless one may notice numerous related features in their material and spiritual cultures. A part of these may have been doubtless the possession of the Perjámos culture, another part, however, may be the heritage of the Pitvaros folk, amalgamated into the Perjámos people, in all probability. The hitherto known cemeteries of the Pitvaros group may be dated to the time span between the end of Early Bronze Age I to the beginning of III, in absolute chronology from about 1820 to cca 1720. 2. A jar of a biconical body with a long upper part and a large strap handle (PL X no. 2). Height" 7,5 cm. Inv. no. 4431 (old Inv. no. 214). 3. A biconical j u g, having a bail on the side (P! X no. 9). Height: 6,5 cm. Inv. no. 4433 (219). 4. A biconical jar, of a long upper part a large strap handle on the side. Dark grey colour. The belly is decorated with a zigzag pattern of three incised parallel lines (PI, X no. 4). Height: 11 cm. Inv. no. 4434 (221). 5. A similar one, smaller, blackish colour (PL X no. 6). Height: 10 cm. Inv. no. 4435 (220). 6. A similar one with a somewhat softer profile PL X no. 7). Height: 10 cm. Inv. no. 4436 (222). 7. An amphora-shaped vessel; a cylindrical neck is sitting on its oval body, two small strap handles on the lower part of the neck. Reddish-yellow (PL XI no. 7). Height: 20 cm. Inv. no. 4440 (218). 8. A two-handled jar, yellowish-brown, the surface is varnislhed and. smoothed (PL X no. 3). Height: 15 cm. Inv. no. 4441. 9. A one-handled, reddish-brown jar (PL X no. 1). Height: 12 cm. Inv. no. 4442 (217). 1928, gift No. 2. 10. A truncated cone-shaped, light brown cup of a small size (PL XI no. 1.) Inv. no. 4370 (291). 11. The fragment of the bottom of a j a r, dark grey (PL XI no. 2). Inv. no. 4371 (292). 12. One-handled jar, brown, one side is reconstructed (PL X no. 5). Inv. no. 4372 (293). 1928, gift No. 3. 13. A truncated cone-shaped, light brown cup of a small size (PL XI. no. 3.) Inv. no. 4399 (412). 1929, gift No. 1. 14. A biconical jar, dark brown with a large strap handle (PL X no. 8). Inv. no. 127. 1929, gift No. 2. (Inv. no. 152/228/). II. THE SOMOGYVÁR GROUP 39