Viola T. Dobosi: Paleolithic Man in the Által-ér Valley (Tata, 1999)

A Szelim-barlang kitöltése a régészeti kultúrákkal /o«ti istván után/ The archaeological cultures in the Szelim-cave after I. Gaál É D Fig. 19. The layer sequence in the Sicelim-cave in humus contained, from Mediaeval times till the Neolithic period backwards variable finds. The excavator considered the core of the Szelim-legend in the human bones belonging to 14 individuals found in the sediment. There were no grave goods, thus the date of the burial could not be ascertained but the skeletons disturbed while rummaging for hidden hoards were suitable to support the legend of the seven villages destroyed. The colour, composition of the sediments formed in the Ice Age, the form of the embedded calcareous debris and mainly the animal and plant remains are important witnesses of the former climate and the organic and inorganic environment even for posterior generations. Under the humus of the Holocene the period of the „real prehistoric men" was reached. The thickness of the yellow sedi40