A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 2. (Békéscsaba, 1973)

Ecsedy István: Újabb adatok a tiszántúli rézkor történetéhez

discovered at the Mezőberény—Békési road site in the course of the excavations by Borbála Maráz (Fig. 1, notation 2). Find material: Figs. 17—20, Tables XI—XII. Those early Baden settlement traces in the material of which the Boleráz types occur in great number can be arranged chronologically between the Cernavoda III period and the hitherto discovered classical and late Baden material from beyond the Tisza. It is here that the settlement material found at the Szeghalom—Dióér site is connected to the material of the sites thus far presented (Fig. 1, notation 3). The material of trench III/l, providing material of a practically purely early nature, is particularly interesting (Tables XIII

—XIV). Numerous early types again come to light from the culture layer of the settlement, together with classical types (Figs. 21—22, Table XV

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< The chronological sequence of the settlement remains presented is therefore : Kétegyháza I

—Mezőberény—Kétegyháza II

—Szeghalom-Dióér. The author assumes that after the Bodrogkeresztur period an extremely dynamic era began beyond the Tisza, in which a significant part may have been played by the first groups of the people of the pit-grave mounds. In successive waves there arrived in this region the late Salcuta and then the Cernavoda III populations, and the steppe groups perhaps giving rise in part to the entire migration ; the first kurgan burials of these in Romania and the area beyond the Tisza must be reckoned with from the Cernavoda I

—III periods

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