Madaras László – Tálas László – Szabó László szerk.: Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 9. (1996)

Róbert Kertész: A New Site of the Northern Hungarian Plain Mesolithic Industry in the Jászság Area (Jászberény IV) (Az észak-alföldi mezolit ipar újabb lelőhelye a Jászságban — Jászberény IV)

smaller (12—15 m) spots there, which originally were separated from each other. The finds of the settlement features (spots) had been pulled together by ploughing making the pretence of the existence of only a single larger settlement spot.

32 Later excavations at Jásztelek I verified the earlier supposition by revealing that smaller concentrations of finds within the "large spot" could be identified as the remains of the ancient settlement places and dwelling structures close to each other.

33 At the site Jászberény IV the overwhelming part of the archeological material collected during the field surveys belonged to chipped stone artefacts. The lithic inventory consists of a few but typical microliths, of a great number of other tools, chips, flakes, cores and lithic raw material lumps. Zoological remains are represented only by some sporadic finds, belonging to vertebrates and to molluscs (some bone fragments — some of them are roasted -—, tooth fragment and mollusc shells). Lithic Industry Researches at the site Jászberény IV are still in their initial stage. The industry, due to the characteristics of a material collected on the surface, cannot be considered as a representative one, the number of well-definable types is also rather small. The inventory consists of 112 pieces. List of types: — grattoir sur bout de lame, court (Fig. 6. 12—13; Fig. 7. 12—13), I: 16,05 mm, w: 9,55 mm, t: 4,7 mm; I: 21,4 mm, w: 15,75 mm, t: 6,75 mm — grattoir raccourci (Fig. 6. 16—17; Fig. 7, 16—17) I: 11,45 mm, w: 18,55 mm, t: 6,7 mm; I: 11,1 mm, w: 19,7 mm, t: 5,5 mm — grattoir simple sur éclat (Fig. 6. 15, 19—21; Fig. 7. 15, 19—21), I: 15,4 mm, w: 15,9 mm, t: 5,2 mm; I: 25,95 mm, w: 22,3 mm, t: 8,7 32 Kertész 1994, 27 33 Kertész 1995a, 68—74 mm; I: 20,8 mm, w: 15,2 mm, t: 9,4 mm; I: 18,4 mm, w: 18,15 mm, t: 8,6 mm — grattoir simple sur éclat atypique (Fig. 6. 22; Fig. 7. 22), I: 12,4 mm, w: 15,55 mm, t: 8,5 mm — grattoir unguiforme (Fig. 6. 14, 18; Fig. 7. 14, 18), I: 15,5 mm, w: 18,15 mm, t: 10,6 mm; I: 9,6 mm, w: 11,8 mm, t: 4,15 mm — burin diédre d'angle (Fig. 6. 23; Fig. 7. 23), I: 12,5 mm, w: 14,75 mm, t: 6,1 mm — triangle scalene (Fig. 6. 1; Fig. 7. 1), I: 12,7 mm, w: 4,5 mm, t: 2,0 mm — lamelle étroite á bord abattu, tronquée (Fig. 6. 2; Fig. 7. 2), I: 15,9 mm, w: 4,65 mm, t: 2,8 mm — fragment de lamelle á bord abattu (Fig. 6. 3; Fig. 7. 3), I: 27,5 mm, w: 7,25 mm, t: 4,3 mm — éclat épais ä retouches réguliéres centralesproximales sur la face inférieure (Fig. 6. 4; Fig. 7. 4), I: 22,1 mm, w: 11,5 mm, t: 4,3 mm; — éclat épais á retouches distales (Fig. 6. 10; Fig. 7. 10), I: 18,7 mm, w: 17,05 mm, t: 6,75 mm — éclat épais á retouches distales sporadiques (Fig. 6. 9; Fig. 7. 9), I: 24,3 mm, w: 13,6 mm, t: 8,8 mm — éclat épais á retouches irréguliéres, coche (Fig. 6. 11; Fig. 7. 11) I: 25,7 mm, w: 24,15 mm, t: 4,85 mm Scrapers are the most characteristic group of the tools found at Jászberény IV (Fig. 6. 12—22). Among the various types those made of blades are rather subordinated. Endscrapers are made of short blades (Fig. 6. 12—13). Among other scrapers we find types made exclusively on flakes. Flake blanks used for making scrapers are either flat (Fig. 6. 15—18) or higher (Fig. 6. 19—22) pieces. Working edges vary from straight (Fig. 6. 13) to the strongly arched (Fig. 6. 14, 16—19), depending on the type in question. One piece among scrapers, made on a bulky flake (Fig. 6. 19), differs from the other ones regarding both its dimensions and its manufacture. Surprisingly enough, burins are represented in the inventory only by a single atypical angular burin (Fig. 6. 23). Among geometric microliths only the scalene triangle is present (Fig. 6. 1). Retouched blades and flakes are repre36