Petres Éva, F.: Neolithic graves at Bicske - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 9. (Székesfehérvár, 1959)
Bükk II, to the Zseliz, and, according to a recent statement, to the Bánát and the late Tisza culture apeear simultaneously .27 Examining the vessels of the Bicske tombs, we find younger forms with linear decorations, dishes characteristic of the Bánát culture and red painting. The find spot is classed in the culture of line decorated pottery owing to its geographic situation, this culture having spread east as far as Transdanubia. Fragments of line decorated vessels with scratched ornaments occur in a small number among the material of the settlement, but there is a single one bearing a Zseliz pattern. In the other hand, a very large number of fragments of vessels have been found in the settlement with impressed knob ornaments, finger imprints or applied lathes, wich decorations are equally typical of the line ornamented pottery, or of the domestic pottery of the Bükk and Tisza cultures. Apart from the feature of line ornaments, there is a larger number of double truncated cone shaped dishes with red painting belonging to the Bánát culture. In general the late neolithic feature (red painting, tubular bottom in the material of settlement) is dominating in the material, wich fact may be attributed to the impact of the Tisza culture having come down here from the Great Hungarian Plain.28 The Bánát culture and the Tisza culture being contemporaries,23 no wonder they should appaer simultaneously or that the latter should play the role of an intermediary. The material of the settlement reflects a Tisza character, too, in the flat low brimmed dishes with the brims formed by imprints of fingers, with knob handles divided once or several times. Up to the present, investigations have settled the chronology of Transdanubian neolithic cultures in the following order: earlier, then later culture of line ornamented pottery, here and there a group of the latter bearing the Zseliz charasteristics, followed by the Tisza culture coming from the Great Plain and the material of mixed brought about.under its influence. Finally the Lengyel culture already belonging to the aeneolothic age. The chronological division has been based, besides the Nagytétény tomb, particularly on the material of Békásmegyer, one of the largest Transdanubian settlements known to the present.33 As against the opinion of successive cultures it has been suggested to consider the different material of the Transdanubian find spots of mixed culture as contemporary.31 The idea is supported by fact that the culture of the line ornamented pottery has to be assumed having lasted a particularly long time in order to explain its coexistence with later cultures. The most striking example is the grave No. 1. of Békásmegyer, the material of wich would require to suppose almost thousand years of usage to prove the succession of cultures.12 Naturally, 8
