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Z. Benkovisky P.–Gömöri J.–K. Kaus: Finds from Burials belonging to the Litzenkeramik Culture in Western Hungary and Eastern Austria

35 Benkovsky-Pivovarová, i. m. 8. jegyzet, 200. 36 D. Koro&ec, Keramika z licensko ornamentiko (Litzenkeramik) na Ljubljanskem barju, ArchVestnik 8, 1957. n/2. tábla. 37 S. VUkovié, Vrpcasta keramika spilje Vindije, ArhVestnik 8, 1957,1/1 a, b, tábla. FINDS FROM BURIALS BELONGING TO THE LITZENKERAMIK CULTURE IN WESTERN HUNGARY AND EASTERN AUSTRIA The paper presents some graves excavated earlier in Western Hungary (Sopron-Kirchner dűlő, Sopron-Városi puszta) and in Eastern Austria (Grosshöflein-Föllik hill), as well as some recent finds (a pithos-burial from Mattersburg). The general way of burial among the people of the Litzenkeramik (stringdecorated pottery)-culture was inhumation, their graves were found SW to lake Fertő (Neusiedler See). In some cases mounds were probably built above the burials. Grave goods characteristic of this culture are small vessels and silices. The vessels are mostly small jugs, decorated by impressing a string on them. They have funnel-shaped neck, roughly globular body, a band-handle under the rim and a knob opposite to the handle. The shape of the vessels resembles those of the contemporaneous Gâta (Wieselburg) culture. According to the former examination of the animal bones the so-called „double grave" (skeleton of a woman and a little girl) at Grosshöflein-Föllik hill contained the remains of different dams and young female animals: a mare with a foal, anothe 4 years old mare, a cow with a calf, a she-goat with a kid and an ewe with a lamb. On the basis of the sherds and the pieces of charcoal found at this site the author supposes that the human skeletons were buried at Grosshöflein into a former dwelling pit of the Magyarád (Mad'arovce)-Vëtefov culture. The map of the burials excavated so fer belonging to the Litzenkeramik-culture demonstrates that they were spread over a relatively small area, bordered on the West by the river Lajta (Leitha) and on the East by the Southern shore of Lake Fertő (Neusiedler See). This corresponds with the spread of settlements and accidental finds from the Northern centre of the Litzenkeramik-culture. Z. Benkovsky-Pivovarova — J. Gömöri — K. Kaus 19