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Tibor Kovács: Representations of Weapons on Bronze Age Pottery

14 T. KOVÁCS Fig. 5. ments and cemeteries came to an abrupt end, in the area between the Danube and the Tisza as well as in the Tisza region we find a continuity of settlements and cemeteries. At the same time it is characteristic of the whole area in question that material and spiritual cultures of ethnic groups recently originated - or, more exactly, recognized by recent research as such ones (the Doln)' Peter group,

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7 Bodrogszerdahely group

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8) - had undergone a change, at places to a different measure. These peoples are, in fact, homogeneous only in regard of their metal artefacts as we find, to a certain measure, the same bronze implements, weapons and jewels known from Koszider type hoards, in all settlements and cemeteries of the period. This encourages us to propose the terminology "Koszider period" for the final stage of our Middle Bronze Age, embracing l

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, A., Befestigte bronzezeitliche Ansiedlung in Vesele. Studijné Zvesti AUSAV 12(1963) 236, 250, 253; Kemencéi, T., op. cit. 162-164^ 186.; Kovács, T., Arch. Ért. 96(1969) 168-169. - Above studies - yielding different results - deal with the historical and ethnical problems of the people, likely to be connected under one name, which lived during the Koszider period on the territories SW-Slovakia and Northern Transdanubia. The nomination Dolny Peter group figures in two recent works: Kemencééi, T., Északkelet-Magyarország története az i. e. 13-9. században. (MS 1972); Kovács, T., A bronzkor emlékei Magyarországon. In print. 1

7 Bandi, G.-Kovács, T., Acta Arch. Hung. 22(1970) 25-39.; Id., JPMÉ 1971 (in print). I

S Kemenc^ei, T., op. cit. 164, 186. - In the cemeteries of the Füzesabony culture, unearthed in the environment of Tiszafüred, there are more than 150 graves representing the relics of the Bodrogszerdahely group.