Garam Éva szerk.: Between East and West - History of the peoples living in hungarian lands (Guide to the Archaeological Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum; Budapest, 2005)

HALL 2 - The Neolithic and the Copper Age (6000-2800 B.C.) (Nándor Kalicz, Pál Raczky)

29. An assemblage of miniature artefacts from Polgár-Csőszhalom. Neolithic, 4800-4600 B.C. Fear of the dead is reflected in the practice of mutilating the corpse and the custom of heaping large stone boulders on the body. A close link, resembling the one between the supernatural sphere and the world of everyday life and its activities as reflected in the relation between Neolithic settlements and burials, can be assumed in the case of everyday and ritual activities. Every aspect of daily life was intertwined with a series of ritual activities beyond the sphere of self-sustenance. It is therefore hardly surprising that there was no sharp boundary between the area where these ritual activities were performed and the one in which daily life was conducted - the family house and its environment. The bull horns