Folia archeologica 39.

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

32 VIOLA T. DOBOSI —BÉLA JUNGBERT — ÁRPÁD RINGER —ISTVÁN VÖRÖS ment as a whole, the radiolarite was concentrated in the central area (unearthed during the excavations), while along the edges of the settlement, which were disturbed or even destroyed by the earth work, flint remained abundantly. In light of the raw material distribution there is no analogy to the Nadap site in Hungary. ANIMAL BONE REMAINS FROM THE NADAP UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT (István VÖRÖS) Bone remains were collected on three occasions from the continuosly deteriorating palaeolithic settlement level on the territory of the Nadap quarry: 1. B. Jungbert, archaeologist at the István Király Museum in Székesfehérvár collected palaeolithic and bone specimens in 1982: 35 pieces; 2. During the verifying excavations in 1985, V. Dobosi (Hungarian National Museum) and B. Jungbert unearthed 267 animal bone pieces, and last 3. J. Homola, a collector of palaeontological remains, found 17 horse remains in the cultural layer destroyed by earth borrowing in the autumn of 1987. The remains of four large mammals were shown to come from the upper palaeolithic cultural layer: they include a horse, a small Equida, a reindeer and a bison. Nearly 100 m

2 were unearthed during the verifying excavations in 1985: — remains of horse, small Equida and reindeer were found in blocks А, В and D; — horse and small Equida remains were found in squares 6 and 2/4 of block E; — only horse remains were found in squares 1/248 and 10 of block F; — horse and bison remain's were found in squares 1/6 of block G; — only horse remains were found in squares 1/8 of block H (Table 1). The topographical distribution of the animal bone material is not uniform: the bone materials accumulated in squares 2/3 of block E and in squares 1/3 of block G. Burnt bone fragments were found in the 2nd square of block E and the square 1/3 block of H, in addition to some burnt pieces found by Homola. The animal bones, especially the horse remains, are by-in-large very badly preserved: some of the bones were covered with an unremovable limey-loessy concretion; others fell to pieces and perished at the moment they were taken up; yet another part of the bones is astonishingly well preserved. Hquus germ aniens (Nehring) — 31 individuals, 304 pieces The anatomical dispersion of the micro-medium-sized horse remains, which were earlier indicated as Equus sp. I. is the following: 1 skull fr. 1 maxilla fr. 39 isolated upper teeth: 6 I 21 Pm (P

2 — 9: 4 sin. and 5 dext., from these 3 dp

2), (рз/4_12: 3 sin. and 9 dext., from these 1 dp

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4), 12 M (M

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25: 1 sin. and 4 dext., M

3-3: 1 sin. and 2 dext., 4 M frags)