Folia archeologica 39.

Viola T. Dobosi - Béla Jungbert - Árpád Ringer - István Vörös: Öskőkori telep Nadapon

PALAEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT IN NADAP 31 The joint occurance of the two high quality raw materials of different colours make this industry, if a subjective remark is allowed, very attractive. Raw materials from territories east of the Danube are totally missing. The definitive presence of the erratic flint in the find material may have chronological connotations, just as the archaic typological features of some tools. Raw material distribution Type Hydroquartzite Radiolarite Erratic flint Gerecse flint Blade 6 57 88 16 End-scraper, truncated balde 10 Burin 1 2 13 1 Core 1 3 4 Backed blades and frags. 1 5 14 3 Gravette-point and frags. 2 6 9 69 135 20 flakes 21 104 334 31 SUM 30 = 4 % 172 = 24 % 469 = 65 % 51 = 7 % Due to the rescue nature of the excavation the find material cannot be considered complete. It still provides, however, a good representation of the whole industry. The raw material distribution of the implements and the flakes is nearly identical: Raw material flake implement radiolarite 21 % 29 % erratic flind 68 % 57 % hydroquartzite 4 % 4 % Gerecse-flint 6 % 8 % The divergence, beyond casual chance, can be observed only with the two dominating raw materials: radiolarite was treated more carefully. The raw material types are evenly dispersed over the unearthed area. Of special note is the fact that during the excavations all types of raw material were found in the 3 squares of block E. It is interesting, however, that most of the scattered material collected on the surface is erratic flint, although for the unpracticed eye of a collector the liver brown radiolarite would be more striking in the light yellow loess. We may risk the supposition that in the undisturbed settle-