THE DEER TOOTH NECKLACE FROM GRAVE 12 AT BODROGZSADÁNY
THE DEER TOOTH NECKLACE FROM GRAVE 12 AT BODROGZSADÁNY

Summary/Abstract: Csanád Bálint and the Archaeological Institute are virtually inseparable in my life: in 1982, he was the first to ask me what I would most like to do if my job were not inventorying finds from various excavations. I told him that I would best like to study the Late Neolithic of the Tisza region. This was a wholly unrealistic dream at the time: even after I was assigned to do archaeological work, I was sent off to a micro-regional research project in Transdanubia, where I had the opportunity to excavate major sites from the Early Neolithic to the Middle Copper Age. Any work on the Late Neolithic of the Tisza region remained an unfulfilled dream for a long time, until around 2000 Ida Bognár-Kutzián asked me to participate in the publication of her still unpublished Neolithic and Copper Age find assemblages. The first volume, containing a description and evaluation of the 1957 season at Polgár–Csőszhalom, appeared in 2007, too late for Ida to see it. The grave goods from the few burials uncovered at Bodrogzsadány–Akasztószer in 1958,1 another of Ida’s excavations have much in common with the finds from the graves of the Csőszhalom site. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the necklace strung of red deer canines from Grave 12 at Bodrogzsadány immediately caught my attention.

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