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12 VIOLA 'Г . DOBOSI — ISTVÁN VÖRÖS STRATIGRAPHY (FIG. 1) The only expert who was able to study the whole layer sequence was T. Kormos who carries out this study with his usual thoroughness. In this account we shall follow his stratigraphical descriptions. It is to be regretted that the stratigraphical position of archaeological finds was not registered accurately. Layer " Л " average thickness: 50 cm, thick greyish brown humus, mixed with limestone rubble. It contains a hearth layer, Bronze Age and Medieval sherds. Layer "D'\_: 15 cm thick, light yellow, loose cave loess with limestone rubble. A calcareous, clayey, fine sediment with bones. Layer "D" 2_: 20 cm thick, darker, slightly reddish-yellow layer, rich in bones. It can be distinguished from the previous layer only on the basis of tis shade. Layer " D s_ ": 22 cm thick, with few limestone rubble, greenish-grey with fewer bones. Layer " D 4" 18 cm thick, greyish-yellow with a few finds. Layer " D 3": 22 cm thick, well distinguishable rusty brown layer. It is very rich in owls' pellets and small polished pebbles originating from the gigerium of birds. Layer "D c_": 22 cm thick ashy grey layer with a brown shade. It contained numerous small bones, the proportion of cave bear increased in this layer. Layer "D 6/ a_": There was a 3—4 cm thick rusty brown level at the base of layer D 6 which was full of fossil "coils". "The most significant traces of hum an activity came to light from this layer (i. e.from D ( t and D 6i a)" 2~ (Fig. 2.). Layer "D 1_ ": 73 cm thick, greyish-brown sediment containing many limestone rubble and big rock lumps overlying the Dachstein limestone bedrock. The sediment is loose, ashy grey; it contains only a few bones. Kormos mentioned that the limestone rock bottom rose slightly toward the rear wall of the rock-shelter, therefore the layers sloped downward and toward the entrance of the cave. The group of layers D 3_ 5 becomes thinner in a lenticular shape and near the big rock layers D 12and D 6_ 7had a direct contact with each other (Fig. 1.). Kormos thought such a minute discussion of the layer sequence to be unnecessary in terms of chronology and divided the palaeontological and archaeological material into three parts: Lower, Middle and Upper diluvium. An information on the archaeological-stratigraphical position of implements: the infilling "contains the remains of the Magdalenian culture from the lowermost part till the part underliying the alluvium.'" 2" Unfortunately this vague statement could be taken to both to the fauna and to the scarce archeological material. L. Vértes too found Kormos' tripartitet division a little rough. The fill shows a definite change just around layers D 3_ s (Middle Diluvium) therefore this crucial phase should have been further subdivided. 3 0 Since the rock-shelter is already fully excavated, it is no longer possible to relife the stratigraphical observations. 2 7 Kormos 1915, 312-116. 2 8 Kormos 1915, 18. 2 9 Kormos 1915, 318-319. 3 0 Vértes 1959, 104.
