Folia archeologica 36.

JEWELRY, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 29 MOGYORÓSBÁNYA-ÚJFALUSI DOMBOK (Újfalusi Hills) The material of our 1984 excavation is still unpublished. Here we mention only the snail shells used as ornaments; Dentalium, Vermetus and some other fragments (Fig. 4, 1

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6.) which were found partly in the culture layer and partly as scattered surface finds. ESZTERGOM-GYURGYALAG During the 1984 excavation a large quantity of various snails used as ornaments accompained by an especially beautiful and homogeneous archeological material, was found in a rich occupation level. Their study is in progress. The outcrops of Oligocene-Miocene marine sediments quite often yielded molluscs for these Upper Paleolithic hunters. Being in good condition these characteristic snails and shells were generally used prehistorically as jewelry or ornament for clothing. J. Lips had called the attention to another function of Dentalium: "An other snail species, Dentalium edulis, was once the currency of Indian tribes living between Alaska and the Puget straits. These snails were dug up by women at the bank of the Vancouver river. Their value depends on the degree of their white glare and on their symmetrical form similar to a small tusk of elephant.

. . The Dentalium is not used as "money" in itself, in its original shape, but the pieces recognized as currencies have to be manufactured and strung on a cord. This work is allowed to be made only by different "currency-makers" (who have a special mandate to do this)."

1" We suggest that these two functions (i. e. jewelry and currency) are inseparable from each other based on our knowledge of the Szob site. SZEKSZÁRD-PALÁNK Oval pebble for paint grinding (Fig. 5, 3.) Inv. № Pb 59/76 Dimensions: 58—49 mms. The settlement site of a group of people living in the Final Ice Age preserving Gravettian traditions in its tool making technique lies between Alleröd sand and a loess layer deposited the younger Dryas period. In the original paper the object is published as a pebble for grinding colouring materials,

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0 however, on the basis of its beautiful proportioned oval shape, fine polishing and because of the absence of traces of colouring matter on it we think it rather to be analogous to the beautiful phyllite-disc from Bodrogkeresztúr. We finish our paper here in the hope of its timely continuation sometime soon. 4

0 bips, ]., A dolgok eredete. (Budapest 1962) 213. 4

1 \ értés, L., A szekszárd-palánki jégkor végi őstelep. (Budapest 1963) Ko^lowski, J. K.— Ko^lowski, S. K., Upper palaeolithic and mesolithic in Europe. Prace Komisji Arch. 18 (1979) 78. Fig. 9.