Mária Bodnár and Pál Raczky (editors) The Copper Age cemetery of Budakalász

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The Late Copper Age cemetery at Budakalász-Luppa csárda has become, in a sense, a textbook case of Hungarian prehistoric studies reflecting the professional, institutional and human problems bedevilling this discipline. This is best illustrated by the very fact that the 436 graves of the Late Copper Age cemetery uncovered between 1952 and 1961 have remained unpublished until now. The found assemblage suffered many hardships during the almost fifty years since the excavation; these are discussed in details by Mária Bodnár in the chapter describing the history of the excavation and previous works in the assessment of the cemetery and its findings