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Title: Cultic finds from the middle copper age of Western Hungary - connections with South East Europe
Other Titles: Archaeology and fertility cult in the Ancient Mediterranean
Authors: Banffy, Eszter
Keywords: Copper age -- Hungary
Cults -- Hungary -- History
Neolithic period -- Hungary
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Pannonia Region
Baden culture
Issue Date: 1986
Publisher: University of Malta Press
Citation: Banffy, E. (1986). Cultic finds from the middle copper age of Western Hungary-connections with South East Europe. In A. Bonanno (Ed.), Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean: papers presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean, 2-5 September 1985 (pp. 69-77). Malta: University of Malta Press.
Abstract: Until recently prehistoric objects considered to be cultic ones were mostly interpreted in two different ways: using the typological method on archaeological material, or on the basis of speculative anthropology, working from recent ethnographic parallels or from parallels to ancient religions. In recent times the analysis of the pure archaeological context provides a third method of increasing popularity. It is in fact very important to study to what extent archaeology can help to solve problems of the history of art and religions, that is, to what extent archaeology can be a source of the history of religions (Banffy, in print). To apply the method of contextual study to the Carpathian Basin and South East Europe, a collection of human figurines with well-observed contexts, as well as anthropomorphic vessels, house models and other finds having a cultic character is in progress (Banffy 1986). Hopefully this work will provide useful data for a better knowledge concerning Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultural groups that lived in the study area (Fig. 7).
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38234
ISBN: 9060322886
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