Folia archeologica 54.

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AN ASPECT TO THE RE-EVALUATION OF SÁC.VÁR (LYUKAS-DOMB) UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITE 31 The 1957 season is documented throughout 9 typed pages and 10 plates of photos.

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2 Details of the 1958 and 1959 years are available only in papers.

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3 Some plans of these seasons are drawn on the original map of Gallus dated to 1941. The original publication's map that summarizes all field works at Ságvár does not contain every trench.

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4 Unmarked are two small trenches in 1936 which recovered small Neolithic features near the top soil surface, three 0.50 m wide and 6.0-7.0 m long probe ditches of Gábori, and the northern extension of trench II in 1959. 3.2. Relocation of lithic artifacts in the excavated areas Besides the incompleteness of the excavation archives the relocation of the Finds within their original field context is also problematic. According to the inventory, the season of 1928 and 1937 brought no finds to the Hungarian National Museum. However, Hillebrand shortly describes finds from 1928

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6 A group of finds catalogued under inventory number 37/1948 have no date of excavation, however a note relate these finds with the "old excavation of Gallus" taken place in 1932. All finds of both layers of 1931 are stored together with a small portion of finds from 1930. A major component of finds from 1930 conversely clearly can be identified and relocated to the excavation trench. Although finds of 1935 were recovered from within two layers, only a single find has a mark of lower layer. A number of artifacts, called debris in the inventory, are not found in the collection. Refining the location of artifacts within the trench of 1935 is impossible. The material of 1936 is catalogued by four blocks numbered with roman numerals (I-IV) and three layers (1-3). This inventory provides contradictory information, because the garbage heap is marked block I while il lay originally in the area of block IV. Another example of contradiction is that according to the inventory layer 3 was recovered in block IV, but the excavation maps solely show two layers in this area. Gallus mentions in the two-page report of 1941 that he reached the lower archaeological level, but the 1941 material is inventoried by artificial levels (l^t) from a single layer (1). In 1957-1959 the trenches were divided into squares of lxl m, but only a few finds are catalogued according to this grid. The inventory mentions solely two groups of find which can be relocated within the area of trench I and trench II. Group one is located in trench I squares II/l 1 (93 items) and group two (73 items) derive from the northern extension of trench II (squares I-VI/1-6). All other finds are catalogued by archaeological level without marking their trench number, except a group of finds which cannot even be associated with any of the archaeological levels neither with excavation trenches. This error in documentation especially' renders difficulties to relocate the finds of the upper level, since this horizon was recovered in both trenches while the lower level emerged limited to a few square meters in trench I. Consequently, besides the lower layer in trench I. the 93 items in square 11/11 in trench I, and the 73 items from squares I-VI/1-6 in trench II, all other finds derive from the upper layer of any of the trenches of 1957—1959. 4

2 Inventory number of the Archives of the Hungarian National Museum: 203.s.III. 4

3 GÁBORI 1964A, 1965; GÁBORI-CSÁNK 1978. 4

4 GÁBORI 1959, I. kép. 4

5 LACZKÓ-GAÁL-HOLLENDONNF.R-HILI.EBRAND 1930. 4F

I GÁBORI-GÁBORI 1957.