Folia archeologica 38.

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. DOBOSI — ISTVÁN VÖRÖS coals do not corroborate this!). He claims that the glacial maximum was during the development of Kormos' D 3 layer, while the uppermost, D 1 layer belongs already to the Postglacial period.

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4 1964. M. Gábori's comprehensive work on the Hungarian Late Palaeolithic was published this year. In this book he refines his former theory based on his thorough knowledge of the Late Palaeolithic of the Ukrainian— South Russian region. According to him the Estern Gravettian culture had migrated westwards in several waves from the South-Russian— Podolian areas as far as the eastern boundary area of the Magdalenian groups migrating from west to east. The Earliest Eastern Gravettian wave had no southern ramification, only a younger Gravettian wave reached the Carpathian Basin via the Western Slovakian valleys. It was this population which established the open-air sites in the Danube Bend and also left the tool assemblages found in the nearby caves.

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5 The Late Palaeolithic material of Hungary differs somewhat from the industries found in the Gravettian heartland. This can be attributed to the fact that the central parts of the Carpathian population and lie outside its more closed distribution areas.

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0 Gábori proposed the name "Pilisszántó group" for the finds recovered from the above-mentioned caves. The Swiderian influence discornible on the tools justifies this new name. Its age is not older than the Würm 3.

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7 1965. In his handbook written on the Hungarian Palaeolithic and Mesolithic L. Vértes discussed the finds as the remains of a culture of "full rights". Nevertheless, he did not suppress his doubts: ''This name is not really partly because we are not convinced whether we are describing a really homogeneous culture with this comprehensive name, and partly because it is not clear whether this culture really has more links with Gravettian culture than with the Magdalenian — at least in the three typical Transdanubian localities."

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8. Only three localities of the Pilisszántó culture, namely the three Transdanubian caves, contain archeological material suitable for evaluation (Pilisszántó, Kiskevély, Jankovich Upper.) The Late Glacial finds of the other 8 caves are scarce, atypical and consist only of very few implements. As for the localities in the Bükk Mt. (Petényi, Peskő, Balla, Ballavölgyi, Diósgyőr-Tapolca, Görömböly-Tapolca, Uppony II) the most one can say is that their population wascon-temporaneous with that of the Pilisszántó rock-shelter. Even though the Szelim cave is near to the assumed heartland of the Pilisszántó culture, its В 1 layer (with Dicrostonjx) yielded only a few small unretouched blades.

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9 1967. The summary of Stieber's theses was published in this year.

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0 On the basis of his and Hollendonner's results he assigns the layer sequence of the rock shelter to the "lower Magdalenian" which corresponds to the 7th vegetation 1

4 Vértes 1959, 123-125. 1

5 Gábori 1964, 21-29. 1

6 Gábori 1964, 23. 1

7 Gábori 1964, 61. 1

8 Vértes 1965, 203. 1

9 Vértes 1965, 204-210. 2

0 Stieber 1967, 308-317.