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

78 ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Among the aurochs remains found at Szabadszállás there are also 5 vertebrae with exostoses and also 2 lumbar vertebrae, the proc. transversi of which had healed forming a callous

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7. 4. Discussion The environment of the village Kecel had yielded other aurochs remains, too: 1., Horn-cores, skull fragments, ribs and vertebrae of aurochs were excavated from a depth of 2.5 — 3 m during turf exploitation in the Őrjeg between Kecel and Öregcsertő in the thirties. The bones were taken to the Museum at Kalocsa by the painter Lajos Gábor, director of the House of Popular arts in Kalocsa

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8. 2., Two horn-cores, a scapula dext. ans an os ph. I. fragm. as well as 12 remains of "Asinus hydruntinus" were found

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8 in 1958, to the W of Kecel, on the left side of the Danube valley main channel in the so-called Tőzegtelep (Peat-bog). 3., S. Nagy, director of the Arany János public elementary school at Kecel, collected the skull of an aurochs bull and a radius dext. also in the Tőzegtelep. The left horn-core of the skull is fragmentary

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0. The dimensions of the skull are listed in Table 1, skull 3. 4., An aurochs bull skull and a femur dext. came to light at the end of the sixties, also from the Tőzegtelep

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1. Skull dimensions are listed in Table 1, skull 2. The comparative study of aurochs remanis found in the Őrjeg Szabadszállás, Kecel) as well as the metric comparison between aurochs and domesticated cattle has been carried out by S. Bökönyi

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2. The results of the comparison of these remains with Hungarian Pleistocene and other European skeleton finds can be summarized as follows: I. The dimensions of the Orjeg Mesolithic (Early Holocene) aurochs horn-cores are smaller than those of the Hungarian Pleistocene horn-cores, but their average value is bigger than that of Late Neolithic aurochs horn-cores. During the Late Neolithic a form with extremely large homes, the absolute dimensions of which are identical with those of Pleistocene age specimens, had again appeared (Table 5.). The postcranial long bones can be characterized also by the gradual decrease of their absolute dimension during the Pleistocene — Mesolithic — Neolithic. The lower limits of the Neolithic bone dimension values are lower, but the body size dimensions of certain extremely huge animals reach those of the Mesolithic population (Table 6.). A comparison of the withers height values of Pleistocene-Mesolithic aurochs skeletons in Hungary shows that the absolute dimensions of the long bones of 1

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9 Jánossy D. rescue excavation in 1958. The remains are in the HNM. Inv. Nr.: 60.4.1 — 15.; Bökönyi 1972, 18., 22.; Vörös 1981.; Bic

Zó 1984, 57. Site 179. 2

U Bökönyi 1972, 18. Figs. 10— 11. The remains are in the public elementary school of Kecel. 2

1 The remains are in the Hungarian Museum of Agriculture. Inv. No. of the skull: 72.29. Its photo is published by Mato/csi 1975, 98. Fig. 41. 2

2 Bökönyi 1972.