The Grave of the “Lady of Borjád” – a Late Neolithic Woman of High Status From Baranya County (Hungary)

Abstract

The paper publishes a recently excavated grave and the possible remains of an adjacent, but destroyed grave, both dated to the Late Neolithic Lengyel Culture. The graves were found in 2010 during a rescue excavation near the village of Borjád (Baranya County, southwestern Hungary). The intact grave (and most probably the destroyed one, too) belongs to a recently discovered type of high-status burial within a large rectangular burial pit with hollowed corners. Many of these graves are richly endowed with grave goods. Though hundreds of Lengyel Culture graves have been published so far from Baranya, the intact Borjád grave is the first of the type from the county, and second outside the site (Alsónyék-Bátaszék, Tolna County) where the type was discovered.