Balogh Zoltán (szerk.): Neograd 2017. Tanulmányok a 70 éves Praznovszky Mihály tiszteletére - A Dornyay Béla Múzeum Évkönyve 40. (Salgótarján, 2017)
Régészet - Péntek Attila–Zandler Krisztián: Nyíltszíni paleolitikus lelőhelyek Bér térségében (Cserhát-hegység, Nógrád megye). Előzetes eredmények
Among the 25 blades only one obsidian and one erratic flint artefact could be dated to the Neolithic period. The blades are worked with lateral retouch, there are also some blades with unretoched Clactonian notches. 42 chipped stone tools could be regarded as Palaeolithic, only a single piece as Neolithic. The most frequent tool type is the end-scraper, mostly made of local limnic silicite. A few are made of local chert and limnic-opalite. Most of them are made on flake, a few are made on blade/let. Morphologically the end-scrapers could be connected to the Aurignacian culture. The side-scrapers are made of limnic silicite variants from the Mátra Mountains. Morphologically they are similar to the Middle Palaeolithic Mousterian types. There are 3 different burin types. There is a fragment of a bifacially worked leaf-shaped point made of felsitic porphyry. Worth to mention is a denticulated tool made of siliceous pebble and a borer made of limnic silicite of the Mátra Mountains. The interpretation of the site is quite hard, because there are typical Middle Palaeolithic, leaf-shaped and Early Upper Palaeolithic Aurignacian tool types too. We can find the most similarities with the Epiaurignacian sites of Andornaktálya-Gyilkos and Andornaktálya-Zúgó-dűlő. Bér-Papi-földek The site is located just eastward from Bér, at an altitude of 220-230 m asf. The collection contains 150 chipped stone artefacts. The dominant raw material is the local limnic silicite. Worth to mention are the few artefacts made of extralocal raw materials like felsitic porphyry and erratic flint. The total number of Palaeolithic tools is 12. There are two side-scrapers, the one is made of felsitic porphyry. Morphologically the 4 end- scrapers made on flake are similar to the carenoid types of the Aurignacian culture. All the 3 leaf-shaped tools are broken. They are made of local limnic silicite and siliceous pebble. This collection also contains leaf-shaped tools of a transitional industry and Upper Palaeolithic Aurignacian types. Bér-Szár-hegy site Nr. 1 The site is located 1 km eastward from the village, at an altitude of 272 m asf. The collection contains 1447 chipped stone implements. The dominant raw material is the local limnic silicite. There are few artefacts made of regional limnic silicite variants and jasper of the Mátra Mountains, extralocal felsitic porphyry and erratic flint. Among the 51 tools the end-scraper is the dominant type (16 pieces). Most of them are carenoid Aurignacian types. There are 9 retouched blades and bladelets, 4 burins and 3 side-scrapers. Worth to mention a denticulated tool and a splintered piece. There are 4 bifacially worked asymmetric tools made of local limnic silicite. There are a few retouched flakes which could be connected to the Late Neolithic Lengyel culture. Bér-Szár-hegy site Nr. 2 The collection contains 691 chipped stone artefacts. The most frequent raw material is the local limnic silicite from Bér and Buják (95%). The extralocal raw materials are the erratic flint, Carpathian 2 type obsidian and the felsitic porphyry. The collection is very homogenous, it contains only Palaeolithic types. There are 23 tools, the dominant type are the end-scrapers, which are mostly nosed and carenoid Aurignacian types. There are some few burins and side-scrapers too. 351
