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T. Dobosi Viola: Őskori telepek Boldogkőváralja környékén - Gyarmati Pál: A boldogkőváraljai régészeti anyag kőzettani vizsgálata. Függelék

62 I. VÖRÖS and 1455 mm, which fall to the categories of the low and tall stature. Their slenderness index: 10,07—11,15. On the basis of their length the longer metatarsus belong to the Eastern European group established by S. Bökönyi for domesticated horses, but the same metatarsus according to their slenderness index belong to the extreme Western group.

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5 Wild horses came to light from the Iron Gate area of the Danube valley from Cuina Turcului Rock Shelter I

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6 and also from the Mesolithic settlements Erbiceni (Moldavia, Roumania)

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7 and Pogorolevka (Soviet Union).

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8 From the Early Neolithic the bone remains of wild horses were found only in Carpathian Basin in five settlements. They are: Tiszaug, Hódmezővásárhely (Hungary), Óbesenyő (Besenova Veche, Roumania)

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9 both are the settlements of the Körös culture, and Gura Baciului,

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1 (Transylvania, Roumania) the settlements of the Cris culture. We have not any knowledge of wild horse bones from this period in the Danube valley or in Moldavia. From the Middle Neolithic (Zseliz, Alföld Linear Pottery culture, Bükk culture) the bones of wild horses were found also only in the Carpathian Basin, in five settlements (Fig. 2). Except the only real lowland settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain that of Dévaványa, the sites are on the fringe of the Great Hungarian Plain. We have no knowledge of wild horses in this period from the Danube valley and Moldavia. In the Late Neolithic (Tisza, Herpály, Csőszhalom and Szilmeg cultures) the number of those sites where wild horses were found redoubled as compared to the earlier periods (Fig. 2). Except the flint mine at Sümeg the sites of wild horses are in the Tiszántúl area and in the Taktaköz and Bodrogköz area. Only Kisköre is on the right side of the Tisza. Horse bones are unknown from the Late Neolithic settlements of the Danube valley and Yugoslavia. In Roumania horse bone remains were found in the following settlements: Bogata,

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3 and Tangiru

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1 (Munténia, Boian culture). In Moldavia in the Linear Pottery layer of Traian-Dealul Fintinilor,

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5 in the precucuteni I. 7

5 Bökönyi, S., History. . . 250., Figs. 93., 95. 5

6 Bolomey, A., Citeva observatii asupra faunei de Mamifere din straturile RomanelloAziliene de la Cuina-Turcului. SCIV 21(1970) 37—39. 7

7 Pàunescu, Al., Cu privire la perioda de sfirçit a epipaleoliticului in nord-vestul çi nordestul Rominiei çi unele persistence ale lui în neoliticul vechi. SCIV 15(1964) 321—. 7

8 Gromova, V., loc. cit. 7

9 Kisléghi, N. Gy„ Arch. Ért. 31(1911) 161. 8

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, О., К izucéniju domasnih i dikih zivotnyh raneneoliticeskoj kultury Kris. Anal. Stiint. al. Univ. "Al. I. Cuza" din Iasi 7(1961) 269.; Id., Sur les restes des faunes subfossiles datant de la culture Starcevo-Criç et le problème de la domestication. Anal. Stiint. al. Univ. "Al. I. Cuza" din Iasi 10(1964) 171. The horse is low, its withers-height is 1350 mm. 8

1 Vlassa, N., Neoliticul Transilvaniei. Bibl. Mus. Napocensis 3. (Cluj 1976) 111. 8

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—Haimovici, S., Fauna din complexele Boian de linga satul Bogata. MCA 5(1959) 127—130. 8

3 Bolomey, A., Fauna neolitica din asezarea Boian A de la Varasti. SCA 3(1966) 27—34. 8

4 Necrasov, O.

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Haimovici, S., Étude de la faune de la station néolithique de Tangiru. Dacia 3(1959) 561—570. 8

5 Id., Studiul resturilor de fauna descoperite in 1959 la Traian (Dealul Viei si Dealul Fintinilor). MCA 8(1962) 261—266.