Folia archeologica 27.
Viola T. Dobosi: Őskori telep Demjén-Hegyeskőbércen
36 V. T. DOBOSI Type groups percentual division Eger Ostoros Korlát Avas 2 8 Demjén Arka Bodrogkeresztúr 2 9 unworked blades 6,6 7,1 41,1 40 28,5 worked blades, 7,1 flakes 21,2 6,1 16,2 19,9 end-scrapers 22,5 26,8 12,8 6,9 8,0 24,2 23,6 side-scrapers 11,7 16,9 9,1 6,9 3,3 1,8 7,3 ruogh implements 12,5 9,8 11,7 18,1 16,5 ~8 ~9 points 27,5 4,2 — 0,4 chisels-borersburins 8,0 4,9 6,5 5,0 17,7 22,0 23,9 others 11,2 9,1 12,7 6,9 5,7 The chipped stone implements can be inserted, with the exception of a couple of characteristical Neolithic end-scrapers on blade, in the material of any of our Upper Palaeolithic settlements. Especially the frequent occurrence of the burins as well as their fine workmanship are characteristic for the material of northeastern Hungarian settlements, primarly for that of Bodrogkeresztúr. 3 0 The ratio of characteristic leather working tools (groups of end-scrapers and side-scrapers) is, within the examined find assemblages, at Eger-Kőporostető and Ostoros-Rácpa nearest to that of the Palaeolithic. The same proportion is at Avas and Demjén remarkably small. In the division of "rough implements" there are no such differences observable in the find material of the sites, belonging to the Eger culture, though they are unquestionably highest at these two sites (Avas and Demjén). We venture the hypothesis that in this fact a change of life habits, connected with the process of a Neolithisation (or at least due to contacts with Neolithic cultures) is reflected in the tool assemblage: the tools of sites, being nearer to Palaeolithic, had gradually undergone to modifications: typical Palaeolithic implements of leather-working, being connected to a food-gathering way of life, take second place behind rough implements, apt for a clearing agriculture. The ratio of these latter tools is lowest at Ostoros, the percentual values of Korlát and Eger are approximately identical; at last, in parallel with the lowest values of leather-working tools, the ratio of these rough implements is highest at Demjén and Avas. This is especially reasonable in the case of Demjén-Hegyeskőbérc, where close connections of the inhabitants of the settlement with a Neolithic population are evident. We collected some fine "rough" implements at Andornaktálya-Rózsahegy, known as far only from surface finds, but belonging to the same group (Figs. 16-17). 2 8 T. Dobosi, V., Mesolithische ... 59. 2 9 Vértes, L., Acta Arch.Hung. 18(1963) 9. 3 0 Ibid. 3-14.
