Für Lajos szerk.: A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 1986-1987 (Budapest, 1987)

TANULMÁNYOK - Bökönyi Sándor: Szarvas 1. lelőhely, egy késő-újkori teleprészlet állatmaradványainak archezoológiai vizsgálata

ZALKIN, V. I. 1961 Izmencssivoszty metapodij u ovec — The variability of metapodials in sheep. Bjull. Moszk. Obses. Iszp. Prirod. Otd. Biol., LXVI, 115—132. Archaeozoological study of the animal remains found in the late neolithic settlement at Szarvas — site No. 1 In the site excavated by J. Makkay in 1975 a small however interesting animal bone sample was unearthed that could be dated to the late Szakáihát group of the AVK (Linear Pottery culture of the Hungarian Plain) and to the Tisza culture respectiveiy-The animal bone sample of the site is interesting for two reasons: 1. it provides valuable informations of the domestic and wild faunas of the Szakáihát group, a phase of the Hungarian neolithic very poorly studied in this respect, and 2. it contains a bison metacarpus, thus a remain of a wild mammal species extremely rarely occurring in the Holocene of Hungary. The domestic fauna of the site (see the fauna list in Table 2) is a typical late neolithic one with a well-expressed dominance of domestic cattle, having pig on the second and caprovines on the third place and only one domestic dog. The domestic animals are of rather small size, a local domestication is only probable in the case of cattle. In the wild fauna aurochs and wild swine are the most frequent species, nevertheless, the ratio of roe deer also seems to be comparatively high: this is a possibly local phenomenon in the Békés region. The only bison bone, a right metacarpal, is very large probably representing a bull which reached its full maturity. There are a couple of bones of large animals among the aurochs and wild size animals that certainly is a surprise because the red and roe deers of the Hungarian Neolithic generally excel in their large size. Hungarian Neolithic generally excel in their large size. As regards meat quantities consumed in the settlement, there were cattle the main meat supplyers among the domestic animals, and aurochs among the wild ones. All other domestie and wild species only played a secondary role in this respect.