A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, 1980/81-1.(Szeged, 1984)

Régészet - Horváth, Ferenc: Ada-type Artifacts of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Alföld

this type have been found coming from early Bronze Age material. A vessel with the same formation of rim can be found in the Ada — material too (T. VII : 3.). The 9/b mug from Ásotthalom — Borgazdaság and jars numbers 1 and 2 with the centrally perpendicular strut in the handle are concurrent with material from the Somogyvár—Vinkovci settlements of Zók and Nagyárpád.

76 During their analysis of the cemetery of Mokrin, M. Giric and N. Tasic found three graves containing Vinkovci type grave goods.

77 All of these double handled jars came from contracted inhumation burials. The vessels from grave 76 and 92 show the effect of late Vinkovci influence in their sharp belly line angular body and low center of gravity (IX. t. 2—3.). The mug from grave 75, with its typical Szőreg—Perjámos form, is difficult to assign unambiguously. Tasic classifies an ax-form jar from grave 235 as Somogyvár — Vinkovci artifact as well.

78 On the basis of the material at our disposal one can not say with certainty whether the grave-goods from Mokrin are related to the Vinkovci or the above outlined Ada-type group of artifacts. Burial customs The burial rites connected to the material under study here are difficult to pinpoint because the majority of the graves were stray finds with poor documentation. In the case of Ada, Radanovac, Ásotthalom, and Hajdukovo (Hajdújárás) — Pörös grave number 7, the grave goods come from inhumation type burials. According to the inventory book, the number 6 jar from Hajdukovo (Hajdújárás) comes from a cremation grave which turned up during the course of earth moving. The Mokrin artifacts displaying Vinkovci influence were grave goods from inhumated burials. On the basis of graves found at Nezsider (Neusiedel am See), Gönyü, and Erzsébet, István Bona identified inhumation in Tumuli as the typical burial custom of the Somogyvár group.

79 The same is true of the Belotic

—Bela Crkva group although the contracted and cremated burials are also found in this group.

80 Contracted burials are dominant in the Glina III culture but cremation graves are quite common as well.

81 Such a mixture of the two burial types can also be found at the site of Gradac near Belegis.

82 In light of these facts, there is little reason to doubt the evidence of records which may no longer be controlled for accuracy : The ceramics described in them are of types associated with both the cremation and inhumation burial rites of the time in question. Summary This assemblage of artifacts gets the name Ada from the name of the first place of discovery. The reasons for making a new distinction were as follows : 1. The above mentioned artifacts cannot be considered part of the Óbéba—Pitvaros group. Although Ada-type artifacts have typological connections with the ceramics of the Makó group and the early Nagyrév culture neither this nor any aspects of the burial rite can serve as adequate reasons to place it within that groups. 76 See notes 26 and 58. 77 Giric (1971) t. XXIII, XXVIII. 78 Giric (1971) I. 205, 76, 85; Tasic (1972) 19, 20, and Fig. 15. 79 Bona (1965a) 47. 80 Garasanin (1958) 90—94. 81 Schroller (1933) 31—35; Prox (1941) 76—77; Roska (1942) 306; Popescu (1944) 48—49; Roman (1976) 33—36. 82 Tasic (1968) 23. 26