Folia archeologica 43.
28 VIOLA T. DOBOSI - ISTVÁN VÖRÖS Stratigraphie distribution of animal remains J. Hillebrand's first report on his excavation in the Kiskevély cave was delivered at the scientific session of the Hungarian National Geological Society (Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat) on the 6th of November, 1912. On the stratigraphie position of the animal remains he told the following: 3 4 - in the greyish yellow clay layer (layer 2.) "reindeer and horse are dominant" moreover "cracked bones" and "worked reindeer antlers" indicate the presence of man. - in the yellow clay layer (layer 3.) "the bones of cave bear are already present in a mass quantity" and also the blades made of bear canines. - in the brown clay layer (layer 4.) "also hyena appears already an it is interesting to note the total absence of reindeer (!)" - in the yellow (plastic or "lower") clay layer (layer 5.) hyena bones occur in a mass quantity. Here also an incomplete hyena skull was found. Lithic tools were not found in this layer but "bones bearing definite traces of manufacture" were present. "Horse and rhinoceros" are present in every Pleistocene layer. J. Hillebrand read a lecture on the results of his 1912 excavations already on the 30th of November in the same year at the special session of the Speleological Committee of the Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat. A "quick" determination of the animal bones was made by Tivadar Kormos. The summarized fauna list of the Pleistocene layers containing 24 species was published by J. Hillebrand. 3 3 He does not give new informations on the character and stratigraphie position of animal remains. He mentions only "the presence of first canines of cave bears found in large quantity" (actually they are incisors/canine and premolars). Similarly to the finds in the Balla cave he thinks them as to be gathered by man but he does not consider their "manufactured" (= perforated) condition a result of human acitivity any more. 3 6 On the results of the 1913 excavation J. Hillebrand read a lecture on the session of the Speleological Department of the Magyarhoni Földtani Társulat on the 23rd of October, 1913. The faunistical observations of the 1913 excavation corroborated the observations of the previous year excavation. But according to the notes in the inventory book in 1913 bone remaine already were not collected. In the greyish yellow layer (layer 2) cave bears already do not occur. He thinks that the geological age of the layer is Magdalenian I —II (lower — upper). This "archeological period" (= culture) protrudes into the underlying yellow clay layer (layer 3) till a 40 em's distance. The lower part of layer 3. is archeologically sterile. Cave bear is present in a mass quantity. Its geological age is Solutrean, the presence of man is indicated by some cracked animal bones. 3 7 "Tooth blades" made of cave bear teeth were present only in the reddish brown (4th) layer; they did not come to light either from the Magdalenian (layer 2. and the upper 40 cm of layer 3) or from the Solutrean (approximately the lower part of layer 3). 3 8 This contradicts to his previous statement made at the 3 4 Hillebrand 1913a, 20-21. 3 5 Hillebrand 1913b. 3 6 Hillebrand 1913b, 163, footnote 1. " Hillebrand 1914, 115. 3 8 Hillebrand 1914, 115-116.
