Budapest Régiségei 36. (2002) – In memoriam Rózsa Kalicz-Schreiber (1929-2001)
Raczky Pál: Evidence of contacts between the Lengyel and Tisza-Herpály Cultures at the late neolithic site of Polgár-Csőszhalom : relationships between Central European and Balkan ritual practice and sacral thought in the Upper Tisza Region = A lengyeli és tisza-herpályi kulturális érintkezés régészeti emlékei Polgár-Csőszhalom késő neolitikus lelőhelyén : a rituális gyakorlat és a szakrális gondolkodás közép-európai, illetve balkáni eredetű elemeinek összefüggései a Felső-Tisza-vidéken 79-92
PÁL RACZKY On the basis of these observations, it may be stated that the population of the Neolithic settlement at Polgár showed a certain degree of social stratification. Traces of a similar type of differentiation have also been observed by Zalai-Gaál during the socio-archaeological analysis of Lengyel Culture burials. He argued that this archaeological culture represented a segmented society47 It is possible that the area surrounded by the concentric ditches was not only a meeting point for the local inhabitants: it may also have been a place where the population of the wider region occasionally convened. Similar sites of regional significance have already been pinpointed by several authors 48 within the context of the Lengyel Culture, with special regard to the possible function of the areas surrounded by circular ditches. The joint occurrence of Lengyel and Tisza-Herpály type anthropomorphic figurines distributed over the entire area of the Polgár-Csőszhalom settlement also means that the ideological contents of these artifacts are culturally syncretic as well. This phenomenon lends support to the possibility that beyond the symbiosis of these two communities, already demonstrated on the level of material culture, more profound social and religious connections may also have been embodied by the neolithic population of this settlement. 47 ZALAI-GAÁL 2002. 44, 53-55. 48 PBTRASCH 1990. 498-501, 506-516, 518.; TRINKA 1991; KALICZ 1998. 60-61. 84
