A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1997-1998 (Debrecen, 1999)

Utak a múltba - Kivonat az M3 autópálya nyomvonalán feltárt régészeti leletek kiállítási katalógusából

from this burial was a pair of copper bracelets, one open, the other with overlapping terminals, which in this period was a luxury item and expressed social standing. The other child burial (Feature 15) contained a skeleton that lay extended on its back. The grave goods were a pottery vessel and a copper bracelet. These burials and their grave goods can be assigned to the Copper Age, which directly succeeded the period marked by the abandonment of the tell settlements in the Great Hungarian Plain. In spite of the marked change in lifeways in the period between the close of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Copper Age, a definite continuity can be noted in material culture, as well as in burial practices, suggesting that the cultural phenomena and rites of the Copper Age were rooted in Neolithic traditions. The Polgár-Nagy Kasziba burials are closely allied to the Copper Age cemetery uncovered at Basatanya, south of Polgár. These burials can be linked to the phase between the Csőszhalom settlement and the Basatanya cemetery, corresponding to phase A of the Tiszapolgár Culture. In terms of absolute chronology, this phase can be dated to between 4300-4000 B.C. 171