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OBOSI % Fig. 5. Diagram of distribution according to types 5. ábra Típus-megoszlás grafikonja Dealing with the winter stations we should underline the fact that neither Tata, nor Érd are "open-air" sites in the classical sense of the word. The settlement enclosed by the walls of the calcareous tufa basin and by the steep sides of valley heads show a certain affinity with the closed interior of the caves. There must have been no great difficulties in covering these not too large, encircled areas making them thus apt for winter use. This is only a speculative hypothesis, we have no proofs for it for the time being. Questionable is, though, whether the Tata community moved to a winter station through the Pilis Hills, full of caves, to the Kiskevély, or on the Vértes line to Csákvár, where they left

—if only as a result of one wintering

—8 to lo implements. At last if we are consequent in carrying out the idea that the Tata people became specialized in hunting of mammoth calves, what could they look for in caves of mountains of medium height ? A solution could be found at least in two directions: 1) the population of the pebble-working Moustérian industries,originating from one source, -adjust themselves to the local possibilities and potentialities as for the measure 3

3 Id., „Zitrus" (Epi-Chopper)-Industrie in Ungarn. In: Frühe Menschheit und Umwelt. I. Fundamenta A,2. (Köln 1970) 28. Fig. 5. Diagram of distribution according to types 5. i

íbra Típus-megoszlás grafikonja