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Viola T. Dobosi - István Vörös: A Pilisszántó I. sz. kőfülke revíziója

66 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS turf exploitation. In the „Catalogue of the archaeological sites around Kecel" Kecel-Rózsaberek field is registered as Site 178

5. The site was formerly called „Kecel Sziget" (Kecel Island)

6. The Rózsaberek field lies to the N of a bridge over the Danube valley main channel (at the same time part of the Kecel — Oregcsertő highway), on the eastern side of the channel

7. The partial filling up of the former Pleistocene Danube bed and the transformation of certain parts of it into a swamp — the formation of the Öregcsertő marsh

8 — had started in the Postglacial period. This is eviden ced among others by the palynological investigations of the peat sequence near the village of Szabadszállás, some 40 km to the N of Kecel. At Szabadszállás the thickness of the peat layer is 3—3,5 m. The palynological investigation of the peat-bog layer was carried out by Mária Miháltz-Faragó (JATE, Szeged). Her determinations and a brief evaluation of the palynological material have been published by Sándor Bökönyi

9. The new evaluation and correlation of palynological data are as follows: level /. — below 3,10 m. Sand of riverbed. Pine-Birch period; Alleröd-Preboreal; Palánk faunistical phase; Epipaleolithic-Mesolithic. 10/9 000-7 ООО ВС. level

2. — 3,10 m. Bottom of the lower peat layer. Hazel Period; Preboreal-Boreal period; the end of Palánk phase; Mesolithic Forest steppe — steppe period. Cca. 7 000 ВС. level 3. — from 3,10 m to 2,10 m: Lower peat layer, Hazel Period; Boreal period; the end of the Palánk phase and the beginning of the Körös phase; MesolithicEarly Neolithic (humid, rainy period). 7 000-5 000 ВС. level

4. — between 1,70 and 2,10 m: Sterile sand (?) layer without pollens. level 5. — between 0,70 and 1,70 m: Upper peat layer, Mixed oak period; Atlantic period; Körös phase. Cca. 5 500—3 000 ВС. level 6. — above 0,70 m; Mixed humus layer. 2.2. Date of the site of the aurochs skeleton The aurochs remains from peat-bog sites both in the Danube— Tisza Interfluve (Szabadszállás

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0 and Kecel

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1) and in Transdanubia (Mezőlak)

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2 were found above the sand of the riverbed, in the lowermost, oldest peat layers. On the basis of pollen analyses made by M. Miháltz-Faragó

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1 the age of the aurochs remains found in the lowermost peat layers falbs into the 5 Bic

Zó 1984, 57. 6 Bökönyi- Horváth 1965, 11.; Bökönyi- Horváth 1972, 238. ' Bökönyi 1972, 18. 8 „Orjeg" is the popular name variant of the name „Öreg (Vörös) mocsár" — Old (Red) marsh — ; „marsh with small ponds"; „remnant of the flood of the river Danube" to the South of the village of Akasztó. The artifical bed of the Danube valley main channel was built partly to follow the former beds of the Danube. The present Danube bed runs parallel to the Danubeat valley main channel, it is 22 km to the West of the village of Kecel; the two beds meet only the town of Baja. 9 Bökönyi 1972, 18-20., Table 1. 1

0 Bökönyi 1972, 20-, 1

1 Bökönyi 1972, 18., 22. Figs. 8., 9. 1

2 Krolopp- Vörös 1982, 40-49. 1

3 Bökönyi 1972, 18-20., Table 1. 1

4 Krolopp- Vörös 1982.