Kalicz Nándor - Koós Judit: Mezőkövesd-Mosolyás. A neolitikus Szatmár-csoport (AVK I) települése és temetője a kr. e. 6. évezred második feléből - Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye régészeti emlékei 9. (Miskolc, 2014)
Függelék - T. Biró Katalin: Mezőkövesd-Mocsolyás: A kőanyag értékelése
260 T. Bíró Katalin Biró 1998, Tables 6 and 7). The chipped tool artefacts can be treated as one assemblage: the more recent periods (LBA - Gáva culture, Roman empire periods - Sarmatian settlement) contribute mainly to other stone utensils like grinding stones, polishers and honestones. The chipped stone industry is rich and varied in forms. It is made using two basic raw material types, i.e., obsidian and limnic silicites, both of them can be considered local/regional raw materials. The obsidian type preferentially used is Slovakian (Carpathian 1) type, obtained from a distance of min. 150 km. The hydrothermal and limnic silicites forming the second large group are dispersed along the foothill regions of the North-Hungarian Mid-Mountain range. Regional varieties of the Tokaj Mts., Bükk forelands and the Mátra Mts. can be recognised among the raw materials, obtained from a distance of 50-100 km. “Long distance” raw materials are rare and occur in less than 1% altogether, comprising Transdanubian radiolarites (min. 250 km), Jurassic Krakow flint (min. 350 km) and Volhynian flint (min. 750 km). To the LD materials we can add greenschist/metabasite and hornfels, both of them coming over 500 km distance. From the typological aspect, the Mocsolyás assemblage is rich and varied. It contains pieces reminiscent of a Mesolithic/Epipalaeolithic tradition like blunted micro-blade points, trapeze- and segment form implements. There is an abundant quantity of borers and burins in the retouched tool kit, some archaic (side-)scrapers and surprisingly few end- scrapers. Special technological feature on obsidian is the application of polishing technique, on points as well as expedient polished stone tools. In totality, the chipped stone assemblage is of high degree of elaboration with characteristic blade technology. The nearest analogy to the Mezőkövesd lithics, in time, space and character, the lithic finds from Füzesabony-Gubakút (Domboróczki 2001, Biró 2001, 2002). The detailed elaboration of the lithic industry was prepared and is in press for the site monograph (Biró in press). The bulky stone utensils of the site were recently investigated. They can be associated with all periods occurring on the site, more complex and varied for the younger time periods. Typically, volcanic rocks of the Bükk Foreland, the Tokaj and the Mátra Mts. were used with subordinate amounts of sandstone and various pebbles. In course of the investigation of the younger quernstones, attention was drawn to a highly characteristic raw material type, ignimbrite that was preferentially used for quernstones and can be added to the increasing list of prehistoric/historic raw materials. [Translated by the author]
