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Eberhauerschmuck und Schweinekiefer-Beigaben in den Neolithischen und Kupferzeitlichen Bestattungssitten des Karpatenbeckens

Zalai-Gaál, I. and Gál, E. and Köhler, K. and Osztás, A. (2009) Eberhauerschmuck und Schweinekiefer-Beigaben in den Neolithischen und Kupferzeitlichen Bestattungssitten des Karpatenbeckens. Acta Archaeologica, 60 (2). pp. 303-355. ISSN 0001-5210

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Abstract

Polished and perforated pendants carved from boar tusks, and jaws of boars and pigs are frequent grave furniture in the Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age cemeteries of the Carpathian Basin . Pairs of tusk pendants were generally placed beside the dead in the early phase of the Lengyel culture, especially beside high status males, who wore these objects as symbols. The 2500 graves of the Alsónyék-Kanizsa-dűlő cemetery represent the late phase of the Lengyel culture, where instead of the pairs of tusk pendants, a huge boar tusk or a tusk disc perforated at the wider terminal was placed on the skull or beside the skull. Pig jaw grave furniture is missing here. The authors examine the occurrence of these types of grave finds in the Neolithic of the Carpathian Basin and Central and South-Eastern Europe. They try to classify the finds and determine their chronology and function.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: C Auxiliary Sciences of History / történeti segédtudományok > CC Archaeology / régészet
Depositing User: Endre Sarvay
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2017 14:16
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2017 14:16
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/66260

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