Gulyás Katalin et al. (szerk.): Tisicum. A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megyei Múzeumok évkönyve 26. (Szolnok, 2018)
Régészeti tanulmányok - Mali Péter: Bronzkori temetkezés Kengyeléről
TISICUM XXVI. Péter Mali Bronze Age cemetery at Kengyel ln August, 2016, local residents reported that in Petőfi street in Kengyel, as a result of digging a ditch, an urn grave and a Sarmatian stove was unearthed that belonged to the Tisza culture, Rákóczifalva group. The site on Kengyel-lapos, on the high shore of an earlier branch of the river had previously been unknown. Among the fragments of the Bronze Age urn, a few pieces of a different urn also came to light, so it can be assumed that a cemetery belonging to the Rákóczifalva group had been located here. The objects of the funeral, based upon the above mentioned, could be dated back to the Koszider period, with univocal grave mounds signs showing in the direction of the Rákóczifalva group. Tibor Kovács, who first described the group, said that it came to existence only with local elements (Vatya, Füzesabony and Szőreg cultures) without grave mounds influence. However, this early group of objects provide new data. The two strongest components in the group are the Vatya culture Koszider period findings (urns and mugs), and the Bodrogszerdahely phase of the Füzesabony culture (decorations of mugs and urns). The conventions of ornaments show in the direction of the Rákóczifalva and Egyek groups along with the form of pitchers. The motifs - although they all appeared in the late collections of the Vatya and Füzesabony cultures - mostly appear in the period of the mould grave objects. This mould grave characteristic as most apparent in the body of mug number 2 and in the pitchers. To sum up: one can observe Koszider period eclectic variation in vessels, the features of which date back to the Vatya and Füzesabony mould grave cultures. The accumulated signs show in the direction of the Rákóczifalva and Egyek groups, and they define the collection as the antecedent of the Tisza region mould grave local groups (primarily the Rákóczifalva group). 92
