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András Markó: Egy kis puzzle: további vizsgálatok a szobi felső-paleolitikus leletegyüttesen
34 GYÖRGY LENGYEL 4. THE IMPACT OF LITHIC REFITTING ON THE SITE Interlayer refittings occur most often at stratified cave sites where human occupation traces are in direct superposition likewise at Geissenklösterle Aurignacian layers or Le Roc-de-Combe or Le Piage Aurignacian-Chatelperronian layers. 4 7 Usually such result refers to post-depositional disturbances. 4 8 The high percentage of interlayer refittings at Ságvár proves that the lithic material of the two archaeological layers is the product of a single knapping activity and therefore they constitute a single lithic industry. This result does not support the earlier observations which distinguished two individual archaeological levels at the site. This is not surprising, because the archaeological finds were recovered from various stratigraphie context. The 1957-1959 excavation found ca. 10-30 cm thick layers and others recorded 30 to 90 cm thickness. Quite often the finds were found in the unstratified loess without being part of any archaeological feature. In these cases the archaeological layers were marked by the distribution of the finds in the loess stratum. .Although each excavator reports no disturbances between the cultural levels, it is highly possible that the reworking of the loess during both the formation of the archaeological record and post-depositional events remained invisible to the naked eye in the present geological stratum. Although it is yet unknown what may have caused the displacement of artifacts, today the most obvious post-depositional disturbance is caused by densely and deep penetrating roots of wattle (Fig. 4.). 5. CONCLUSION Contrary to what has been claimed previously, most probably the Upper Palaeolithic site at Ságvár Lyukas-domb was formed after a single human occupation. The varying appearance of the archaeological finds is due to the agencies of different site formation processes and post-depositional events of yet unidentified agencies. This taphonomic character of the archaeological site contradicts the hypothesis of the two human occupations. 4 7 HAHN-OWEN 1985. 4 8 BORDES 2002; VILLA 1982.
