Zalotay Elemér: Baja népe az őskortól a középkorig - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 3-4. (Baja, 1957)
Ásatások és képek jegyzéke
Die Geschichte ist nicht bloss Geschehen, die Folge von sichtbaren; hörbaren, greifbaren Tatsachen, sondern zugleich ein solcher biologischer Vorgang', dessen Wirkungskräfte aus dem Schosse der Natur hervorgehen und auch dahin zurückkehren. Sie. ist eben dann am meisten materiell, wenn wir die grösste Abstraktion vollführen. SUMMARY It’s the original title of the work: The History of the People of Baja’s Space of Life Since the Oldest Days by the Basis of Archeological Researches. In the first chapter it sums those popular beliefs, which had given work to those, who looked after treasure and the fantasts of the country in the past. One of these tales is the belief of Baja's inhabitants of the tunnel system remaining since the Turkish Empire. This is the content of the second chapter, it contains the results too, which the systematic researches of the museum has archieved. The third chapter determines the boundaries of the region and sketches its geographical area, which can be regarded as the natural space of life of the town. The work does not begin the remembrance of the oldest life with the material founk nearby, but with a mezolitical horn-pick, which Was brought from Torda (Transylvania) to Baja in about the ninetith and was presented to the historical collection of the Teacher's Training College. For the line ornamented ceramics of the Alföld (low country) originates from this period, it starts the human history wuith this finding. The remembrances of the neolitical Kőrös culture are already richer in the region and the work after having enumerated the places of the findings returns to the introduction of the culture of Tisza. It takes the midst of the IV. thousand years as a time, when the region had become crowded. To let us understand the developement, the sixth chapter gives a short review referring to the Copper Age. It compartes the developement of this with the neolitical preceding event, shows the culmination of the shepherd form in the material of findings of the Baden and Bodrogkeresztur cultures, which is depressed from the level of the high agricultural Tisza culture and becomes the representative of the claims of Baden (from west) and Bodrogkeresztur (from east) cultures. This is justified also by the result of the excavation of Herpály hillock. It shows, that is the first time of appearing of the material of horse remembrance in the region. The form of families are to be established, which remains through all the levels of the Barbarian Age. Wo can t howerer review what kind of relationship was between the cultures of Copper Age passing sideby in the technic of speak. It regards the Copper Age as the preliminary condition being rich in the popular movements of the joint developement of the culture of bronze age. The sixth chapter speaks about the thousand years of the Bronze Age. It Shows the enormous changes under the seemingly calm surface, and tJhe developement (we can hardly to measure) of the producer strength and the producer conditions and social institutions of the ancient population. Its opinion about the debate being around the division of the Bronze Age to four or three parts, is, that the dialectical view of historical materialism can divide it only to two parts. The first part is to be connected to the Traks on the principle of national continuity, the other part to the historical changes happened by the Illyr movements. 6 «I
