Folia archeologica 47.
István Vörös: A Denevér úti kovabánya agancsleletei (Budapest-Farkasrét)
ANTLER FINDS IN THE. FLINT MINE 99 In the flint mines because of the optimum power transfer the antler parts A., B. and C. used for blowing, pounding, nad necessarily long shafts. In the Denevér street flint mine the occurrence of these is the lowest (Tabl. 11). As for beam bases B. the length of the shaft of the tool depended on the use of the tool. The shafts of mauls were beams as long as possible while the shafts of picks were the trays. Because of the primary use of blowing, pounding tools, beams occur in a relatively small quantity. Answering Gábori, Miklós' questions mentioned in the introduction the author states the following: 1. Figs. 7. and 8. include the typology of antler parts while their distribution can be seen on Table 2. 2. Minimum 40 antler pairs can be reconstructed in the find assemblage 3. the lower parts of antler beams are absent in 66 (!) cases, therefore it cannot be decided whether the antler was got by hunting (antler with skull-fr.) or by collection (cast antler). In the Denevér street there are two antlers with skull fr. and four cast antlers. In Sümeg there were antlers with skull fragm. and 99 cast antlers, in Aszód there were 21 antlers with skull-fr. and 63 cast antlers. 4. Lower parts of beams bearing burrs are absent that is why they "cannot be found at the site. Those burrs which are present on antlers are partly carved, partly worn by use. 5. The ''banana-shaped tools" are brows-tines. 6. The "half antlers (Fig. 11. 1-2) were used as pounding, hammering tools. 7. In Hungary during the Middle Paleolithic red deer occurred relatively rarely. We do not know their antlers. The dimensions of those Pleistocene red deer antlers which came to light from the river Tisza 3 1 are either identical with those of prehistoric ones or they are larger. To sum up: the animal bone find assemblage of the Denevér street flint mine belongs to the prehistory and within this to a period following the Late Neolithic. Finally: further archeological and sedimentological studies should be made to decide whether the fissure/cavern had some function in the Paleolithic or not, and if it had what kind of functions it was. 3 1 Vörös 1987a.
