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10 V. T. DOBOSI cleaved in a natural way. 6 According to Breuil and Lantier the stones from Boncelles are flakes from the Oligocene. Our objects are not artefacts, either, 7 they have a significance only from the point of view of cultural history. Cerisiers, Les: —in a box labelled thus there is, among objects belonging to several other cultures, a hand-axe from the developed Acheulian. Clacton on Sea: The 11 objects come from the collection of S.H. Warren. The Museum received these doublettes in exchange for the Vértesszőlős stone artefacts selected by Vértes from the 1964 sporadic find. Warren studied the site for 40 years, collecting the earliest stone artefacts of Britain. On the basis of his elaboration Movius introduced in 1949 the name "chopper-chopping-tool complex" as a widespread Lower Palaeolithic cultural filum, that thrived for a long time. 8 The objects: pebble-chopper, characteristical flake-artefacts of 'Clactonian" flaking, scrapers made of a good quality homogeneous flint. Chou-kon-tien : from the Sinanthropus site J. Korek has donated two slices, cleaved from vein-stone quartzite; the objects are lost. The quartzite artefact, coming from Locus I, was given to the Museum by G.H.R. von Koenigswald. Cromfestu: in the collection there is an artefect of triangular shape, worked on both sides. The history of its accession to the museum is unknown. According to the original cultural classification the object is Strepyan, belonging to the second phase of the Lower Palaeolithic chronology, made by A. Rutot about 1900 (Pre-Chellean, Strepyan, Chellean, Acheulian etc.). 9 Haine St. Pierre : the flakes with scraper edges, half-hand-axes acquired under unknown circumstances, were classified also to the Strepyan. 1 0 Levai : the pic-like objects and some amorphous, worked flakes, collected from this site, are also classified as Strepyan. 1 1 Moustier, Le: under Inv. No. 42/914 the Palaeolithical Collection keeps a selection of finds. Coming from the most famous French caves, considered to-day as the classic ones, the finds were bought from Otto Hauser, their majority having been exavated by Hauser. Le Moustier, a site complex consisting of several caves and abris, has been known since 1863. Our Acheulian objects come from the Lower Palaeolithic stratum of one of Le Moustier's caves. Olduvai: From the bequest of László Vértes several artefacts collected during his study tour of 1966 came into the Museum. The quartzite bolas and five choppers, belong to the "oldowayen typique". 1 2 From a younger phase, a higher layer might have yielded the Acheulian hand-axe of basalt and several flakes. Pont Andemer: as a gift of the chemist L. Homo a selected type collection came in 1886 into the possession of the museum, containing, among others, Lower Palaeolithic hand-axes and flakes. 6 Leroi — Gourhan, A. et al., La préhistoire. (Paris 1966) 285. 7 Breuil, H. —Lan/ier, R., Les hommes de la pierre ancienne. (Paris 1959) 67. 8 Wymer, ]., Lower Palaeolithic archaeology in Britain. (London 1968) 34. 9 Leroi — Gourhan, A. et al., op. cit. 284—285. 1 0 Ibid. 1 1 Ibid. 1 2 Sutton, J. E. G., Préhistoire de l'Arfique orientale. In: Histoire générale de l'Afrique. I. (Paris 1980) 500—502.
