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

Fig. 21. Pierced amulet made of wolf-tooth (Szelim-cave, upper cultural layer) The technique of piercing is exceptionally well observable on this piece. The strong root of the tooth was minced by scraping and grooving and the thinned bone plate was pierced. After this, the hole was carefully rounded. It was a longish, minute work and the result is attractive. We are travelling back a long way in time. On the bottom of the same yellow loessy layer we find bones which tell us about an entirely different climate. The beautiful tool found here by the excavator was made by other people, standing on an earlier phase of development in human culture. The man was Fig. 12. Leaf-shaped side-scraper (Szelim-cave, Jankovichian culture) a Neanderthal man and the culture belonging to one of the cultures of the Hungarian Middle Palaeolithic. It is 30 - 40 thousand years older than the few blades found in the upper loessy layer. The hunters producing the beautiful knives, scrapers, carefully worked lance-heads, worked on both sides, made of shiny liver-brown silex used to live in the caves of the north-eastern parts of Transdanubia during the initial phase of the last glaciation (Wurm). These tools were their typical working implements and arms. They were named by archaeologists Jankovichian culture, after one of their sites, the Jankovich42