Folia Historico-Naturalia Musei Matraensis - A Mátra Múzeum Természetrajzi Közleményei 13. (1988)

SZATHMÁRY, L.: The Boreal (Mesolithic) peopling in the Carpathian Basin: the role of the peripheries

57) Dvory nad _itavou (BÁRTA 1972, 1981) In the Transdanubian region it is the findings of Szekszárd-Palánk (58) which can be dated most reliably (B.C. 8300-500). The archaeological remains of this settlement give evidence about the Preboreal and the Boreal periods from the end of the Dryas (VÉRTES 1962, 1965). Owing to the doubtful stratigraphical conditions only heterogeneous lithic industries are known from the further Transdanubian localities: 50) Szekszárd-Palánk (VÉRTES 1962, 1965) 59) Szil-Perlaki hill (FIGLER A. oral communication) (Fig. 3) 60) Koroncó-Bábota (GALLUS 1942, VÉRTES 1965) 61) Koroncó (GALLUS 1942, VÉRTES 1965) 62) Románd-Templomföld (GALLUS 1942, VÉRTES 1965) 63) Bakonytamási (GALLUS 1942, VÉRTES 1965) 64) Vöröstó (LACZKÓ 1929a, 1929b, MÉSZÁROS 1948, VÉRTES 1965) 65) Mencshely (LACZKÓ 1929a, 1929b, MÉSZÁROS 1948, VÉRTES 1965) 66) Pamuk (PUSZTAI 1957, VÉRTES 1965) 67) Kaposhomok (PUSZTAI 1957, VÉRTES 1965) Fig. 3. The stone implements from Tarpa-Kishegy-Szipa bank (1-5) and from Szil-Perlaki hill (6-18) localities It seems as if in the region of the Danube-bend a separate group can be outlined. There are merely typological arguments at our disposal, however, for the classification. The remains in the neighbourhood of Hont seem to be more archaic than the finds from Szekszárd (Swidry influences). The relics of Sződliget, on the other hand may be younger than the Szekszárd remains. Nevertheless, the classification does not seem so distinct if the large-scale variagated collection of finds represented by the localities Kamyanitsa I and V in Carpathian Ukraine is regarded to be the standard (cf. MATSKEVOÍ 1987a). The findspots are as follows: 63) Remete cave (GÁBORI 1958. VÉRTES 1965) 69) Hont -Templom hill (GÁBORI 1956a, 1964, VÉRTES 1965) 70) Hont -Vár hill (GÁBORI 1964, VÉRTES 1965) 71) Hont -Csitár (GÁBORI 1964, VÉRTES 1965) 72) Sződliget (GÁBORI 1956b, 1964, VÉRTES 1965) Summing up the archaeological evidences it emerges that no serious arguments can be advanced for the peopling of the central plain in the Preboreal and the Boreal. Actually it is