Vadas Ferenc (szerk.): A Szekszárdi Béri Balogh Ádám Múzeum Évkönyve 13. (Szekszárd, 1986)

László Bartosiewicz–Alice M. Choyke: Animal exploitation at the site of Csabdi–Télizöldes

at such sites is also represented by numerous individuals. The small percentage of bones from this sub-family, on the other hand, is characteristic of sites where the proportion of cattle is high (factor 3). Factor 4 emphasizes the significant contribution of cattle MNI to the high proportion of total MNI to total FN. Factor 5 reveals the negative relationship between the extent to which domestic animals are represented and the percentage contribution of the MNI calculated for dogs, which seems to be indicative of either the role of dogs in hunting or the decreasing significance of dogs as resources of meat at sites characterized by more advanced animal keeping. Since factors are by definition to be perceived as being representative of independent tendencies, grouping of all 87 sites seemed most promising in terms of factors 2 and 3. Factor scores calculated for each site were plotted in the plane defined by these two factors, thus showing the distribution of the wide variety of settlements used in the calculation. In Figure 3 the faunal material af Csabdi-Télizöldes may be located in these coordinates defined by the importance of pig keeping (x axis, independent variable) and an increasing percentage of cattle remains (both FN and MNI) as opposed to the number of Caprine bone (y axis, dependent variable). According to this mapping Csabdi-Télizöldes (just as the other classical Lengyel culture sites of Aszód-Papiföldek and Zengővárkony) was characterized by the great percentage contribution of cattle, while sheep and/or goat were not represented in remarkable numbers. Aside from this, the meat exploitation of pigs was also high relative to the average on Neolithic sites. The geographical-cultural meaning of this distribution may be better understood by adding that early, sheepkeeping communites of the Mediterranean region occur in the negative quarter of the figure, while some settlements from Central and Northern Europe scored high on the x axis due to their rich pig bone inventories. In the case of the Transdanubian Lengyel culture sites cattle seems to have had a predominant role in the domestic fauna while pig was probably easier to keep in the decidious forests than sheep or goat.