Folia archeologica 43.

MATERIAL OF THE KISKEVÊLY CAVE 41 These layers were determined as Mousterian or tentatively as Szeletian with the dominance of Ursus in their fauna.

71 Subalyuk Ottokár Kadic writes: "...in this case I grouped only those bone fragments which after a thorough and repeated investigation proved to be real tools" and mentions two Kiskevélyi type tooth blades from the lower culture layer (vivid red clay and yellowish red clay) and 18 ones from the upper culture layer. For some reason later he mentions only one tooth-blade from the lower level.

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3 According to the latest re-examination the two culture layers belong to the gradually cooling down phase of Early Würm, even the upper culture layer had been developed before the W 1 maximum. Cave bear is dominant during the whole period.

74 Popovdccave Ernő Balogh claims cracked and rolled cave bear bones as to be tools, among which he mentions "Kiskevélyi type tooth blades", too.

75 Peskő cave Kadic mentions several "Kiskevélyi type blades of various shape from the Aurignacian and Magdalenian layers.

76 Istállóskói cave Several scholars made numerous excavations in the cave, the material of which had got into different places.

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7 In those layers which are denoted to be the provenance of "Kiskevélyi type tooth blades" (lower culture layer "Szeleta fauna phase", upper culture layer "Istállóskő fauna phase") Ursus spelaeus

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8 is the dominant fauna element. The classical period of intensive excavations, that is the period between the two world wars, never repeated itself later; if only because the number of sites suitable for excavations had decreased radically. Kiskevélyi type tooth-blades are mentioned later in effect — at least according to our present knowledge - only once. László Vértes writes: "In den verschiedenen paläolithischen Fundstätten mit Höhlenbären in Ungarn ... gibt es solche "primitiven Knochengeräte" doch standen ihnen die ungarischen Forscher von allem Anfang mißtrauisch gegenüber, oder wiesen sie gar völlig ab

... Den Pseudoknochenwerkzeugen rechnen wir auch die "Kiskevélyer Zahnklingen" zu, wie auch die in verschiedenem Grab abgewetzten Höhlenbärenzähne, wobei wir uns auf Tasnádi-Kubacska und eigene Beobachtungen stützen"

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4 As far as we know the viewpoint of Hungarian scholars, at least regarding " Kiskevélyi type blade tools", was not exactly the one described by Vértes. Yet "Kiskevélyi type tooth-blade" both as a tool type and a terminus technicus had disappeared silently from Hungarian literature. By now it remained only a crious episode of research history. 7

1 Vértes. L. 1965. 309-310. 7

2 Kadic, O. 1938. 143. 7

3 Kadic, O. 1940. 192-194. 7

4 Mester, Is. 1989. 15-16; Vértes, L. 1965. 332. 7

5 Balogh, I. 1942. 4. fig. 7

6 Kadic, O. 1944. 25-26. 7

7 Hillebrand,]. 1917. 108; Hillebrand, J. 1919, 12: Kadic, O. 1944. 54. 7

8 Vörös, I. 1984. 9. 7

9 Vértes, L. 1958/59. 166. A tanulmány OTKA (1/3, 2794) támogatással készült.