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

Fig. 31. Pebble tools ment. Taking into consideration the demands of temperature, sunshine and precipitation, the average July temperature of the site during the existence of the Palaeolithic settlement could be around 19 °C. Thus it is understandable how small rodents or molluscs definitely preferring warm climate could get into the soil of the site. Summing up we can say that on the site at the meeting point of the Mid-mountain region and the plains, the steppean and the forestal fauna were mixed while the mild local climate of the tepid springs and the vegetation of the cooler hillside was mixed in the pollen samples of the soil. More specifically, the most important game of the hunters were young individuals of large-size mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, wild horse (steppean animals) as well as red deer and wild boar (forestal animals). The hearth-places of the hunters' site would have as fire-wood pine, elm, hornbeam and oak, the wind could transport the pollen of mo-sses, reed and sedge sás preferring water 54