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10 ANDRÁS MARKO refitting studies were used for answering various questions. 1 4 After the clearing of the theoretic bases 1 3 and the first conference 'The Big Puzzle', consecrated exclusively to this question, 1 6 the method became a standard way of investigations in the Palaeolithic archaeology. 1 7 From the Carpathian basin, however, with some important exceptions 1 8 refitting studies were used only incidentally 1 9 or as a curiosity. 2 0 The studied site of Szob was discovered and first excavated by the eminent surveyor A. János Horváth. Before the World War II Sándor Gallus, archaeologist of the Hungarian National Museum and Mária Mottl, assistant of the Hungarian Royal Geological Institute carried out small-scale field works and in 1963-1966 Miklós Gábori excavated several hundred square meters. Although Horváth and Mottl documented two or three discrete layers, during the last excavations the artefacts were found in a single find horizon. The site was well known after the peculiar features, like the hearth with stone structure and the moulds of fossil molluscs 2 1 (one of them with stone ring too); the archaeological material was recently summarised and was sorted into the Ságvárian industry and the assemblage of the last excavations on typological ground was linked to the upper layer of Ságvár. 2 2 RESULTS As the large part of the materials, found before the Word War II is missing from the collections, in the following the small assemblage of the last excavations, with 31 complexes of refits, containing 136 pieces (i.e. 24.55% of the 554 lithics) will be discussed in details (Table 1.). Several refit groups are linked to the on-site core exploitation of siliceous pebbles. 17 pieces belong to the nearly complete reduction sequence of a characteristic radiolarite variant of yellowish red colour (complex 2). After the first steps of the pebble working, indicated by refits of cortical flakes, there is a considerable hiatus in the assemblage, the blanks might have been exported from the site. The next documented step was the forming of the striking platform by three flakes (Fig. 1.1.); four of the numerous bladelets, removed from here are conjoined (Fig. 1.2.), however, many pieces are absent again. The second striking platform was shaped in a perpendicular axe to the former one, from where pointed bladelets with cortical distal part were detached, the last of them was refitted to the flaking surface (Fig. 1.З.). In the assemblage there are further 21 pieces of the same raw material variant, belonging to all the phases of the reduction but regrettably, cannot be directly fitted. This high number may raise the possibility, that more than one block of this raw material was worked on the site, however, the observations on the cortex, the matrix and the inhomogeneities of the pieces make this supposition highly improbable. 2 3 1 4 HOFMAN 1981. 1 5 CZIESLA 1986. 1 6 CZIESLA et al (eds.) 1990. 1 7 e.g. PiGEOTed. 2004. 1 8 DOBOSI 1974. 19-21; USIK 1989; BÁNESZ et al. 1992; NOVÁK2002, 23; MARKO 2007a; in press.. 1 9 K ADIC 1915, 22; GÁBORI 1959, 12; A DAMS 2000, 174; MARKÓ 2007a. 2 0 VÉRTES 1954; RINGER-MESTER 2001, 13; LENGYEL-SZOLYÁK 2007. 2 1 GÁBORI 1969. 2 2 MARKÓ 2007. 2 3 с. f. BÁNESZ et al. 1992, 16.
