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Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Zoffmann Zsuzsanna, K.: Excavations at Bicske. II, 1960. Anthropological Finds from the Neolithic Cemetery. p. 61–69.
EXCAVATIONS AT BICSKE II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL FINDS FROM THE NEOLITHIC CEMETERY In the site of Bicske-Galagonyás (county Fejér) archaeological excavations have been made several times, in the course of which, together with a part of a prehistoric settlement, graves with contracted skeletons also alighted in 1933, 1959 and 1974( 1 ). At the time when the first information was made about the settlement and a part of the cemetery, the archaelogical dating of the site was uncertain( 2 ), due to which fact, erroneous dating appeared also in the anthropological literature. Thus J. Nemeskér i ( 3 ) giving a general characterization of the prehistoric Hungarian anthropological finds, wrote about the skeletons excavated in Bicske-Galagonyás as the anthropological material representing up to that time alone the Transdanubian Linear Culture. Recent archaeological investigations, however, place these finds in the so-called Sopot-Bicske culture dated somewhat later within the Neolithic( 4 ). This culture spread on the right riverside of the Danube, in East-Slavonia and East-Transdanubia in the Middle Neolithic. (1) I should like to express here my sincere gratitude to J. M а к к a y for handing over the material and offering his views on the areheologieal aspeets of the manuscript. (2) Ë. F. PETRES, Neolithic Graves at Bicske. IKMK, A/9, 1959. (3) J. NEMESKÉRI, Die wichtigstem anthropologischen Fragen der Urgeschichte in Ungarn. AnthrKözl, V, 1961, 39—47. (4) J. MAKKAY, Die neolithische Funde in Bicske. StudZvesti AUSAV, XVII, 1909, 253—270.; N. KALTCZ —J. MAKKAY, A neolitikus Sopot-Bicske kultúra. Die neolithische SopotBicske-Kultur . AËrt, XCIX, 1972, 3—13, 13—14. Condition of the material The anthropological material from Bicske-Galagonyás is deposited at the Archaeological Department of the István Király Museum in Székesfehérvár. According to its entry order in the inventory the material consists of the followings: Grave 1/1933 (Inv. No. 70. 6. 1.) — Fragmentary skull and skeleton. ! 1 1933 (Inv. No. 70. 6. 1.) - Together with the material of the precedent grave few bones (s. clavicula, s. humerus, s. radius, d. ulna, d. s. calcaneus). No grave number could be ascertained. Grave 2/1933 {Inv. No. 70. 6. 2.) - Fragmentary skull and skeleton. 1/1933 (Inv. No. 70. 6. 3) - Fragments of two infant skulls with a few long bone fragments figure under the same inventory number. The number of the grave was unascertainable. Grave 3/1933 (Inv. No. 70. 6. 4.) - Fragmentary skull and skeleton. Grave 4/1933 (Inv. No. 70. 6. 5.) — Fragmentary skull and skeleton. 1/1933 (Inv. No. 70. 6. в.) - Fragmentary skull. The number of the grave was unascertainable. ? (Inv. No. 70. 6. 7) - Fragmentary skull anf the fragment of a skull belonging the another adult. No grave number could be ascertained. Grave 1/1959 (Inv. No. 70. 6. 8.) - Fragmentary infant skull and skeleton. Grave 1/1974 (Inv. No. 77. 1. 1.) - Skull and skeleton in good condition. The bones are in relatively good condition, however, the material excavated in 1933 is very fragmentary and defective: deficient calvaria, mandible and long bones were saved only. The infant skeleton rescued m
