Budapest Régiségei 36. (2002) – In memoriam Rózsa Kalicz-Schreiber (1929-2001)

T. Bíró Katalin: New data on the utilisation of Buda hornstone in the early bronze age = Új adatok a budai szarukő korabronzkori hasznosításáról 131-143

NEW DATA ON THE UTILISATION OF BUDA HORNSTONE IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE None of the pieces from the two depots presented here shows visible signs of utilisation or retouch for shaping. In lithic archaeology these pieces are listed as "blanks", i.e., half-pro ducts between the raw material and the tools. The fact that they were collected and piled up together show that they were intended for further processing. This interpretation is rather questionable in the context of a symbolic grave; however, notions on the Other World may not contradict this. In the context of the Baden Culture, grave of an artisan from the famous Budakalász cemetery published by Korek

15 also contained essential amount of flakes (for further work on the Other World); we can suppose that stocks for further processing were collected, for the specialist, in this world and beyond. The actual description of the items in the depot is given below: Budapest-Albertfalva 1. B3 flake 38 x 26 x 7 mm (Fig, 4. 1) 2. B3 flake 42 x 43 x 10 mm (Fig. 4. 2) 3. B3 flake 38 x 29 x 9 mm (Fig. 4. 3) 4. B3 flake 40 x 37 x 12 mm (Fig. 4. 4) 5. B3 flake 45 x 38 x 14 mm (Fig. 4. 5) 6. B3 flake 26 x 33 x 12 mm (Fig. 4. 6) 7. B7 blade-like flake 45 x 29 x 14 mm (Fig. 4. 7) 8. B3 flake 32 x 37 x 10 mm (Fig. 4. 8) 9. B3 flake 48 x 33 x 13 mm (Fig. 4. 9) 10. B3 flake 37 x 27 x 13 mm (Fig. 4. 10) 11. B3 flake 52 x 35 x 10 mm (Fig. 5. 11) 12. B3 flake 46 x 23 x 12 mm (Fig. 5. 12) 13. B3/9 fragment of flake 45 33 8 (Fig. 5. 13) 14. B3 flake 28 x 35 x 10 mm (Fig. 5. 14) 15. B3w microflake 30 x 24 x 8 mm (Fig. 5. 15) 16. B3 flake 38 x 23 x 6 mm (Fig. 5. 16) 17. B3 flake 30 x 28 x 10 mm (Fig. 5. 17) 18. B3w microflake 26 x 20 x 8 mm (Fig. 5. 18) 19. B3 flake 27 x 28 x 8 mm (Fig. 5. 19) 20. B4 chip 23 x 25 x 5 mm (Fig. 5. 20) 21. B3w microflake 23 x 24 x 8 mm (Fig. 5. 21) 22. B4 chip 24 x 14 x 6 mm (Fig. 5. 22) Csepel, Rákóczi street 1. B4 chip with full bulb 20 x 15 x 3 mm (Fig. 8. 29) 2. B7/9 fragment of blade-like flake, medial part 17 x 25 x 5 mm (Fig. 6. 9) 3. B6 knife with cortexed back 36 x 20 x 8 mm (Fig. 6. 6) 4. B3 flake 28 x 30 x 8 mm (Fig. 8. 37) 5. B3 flake 35 x 22 x 9 mm (Fig. 8. 34) 6. B3 core rejuvenation flake 32 x 32 x 14 mm (Fig. 7. 19) 7. B3 flake 38 x 34 x 13 mm (Fig. 7. 22) 8. B3 flake 17 x 33 x 8 mm (Fig. 6. 14) 15 KOREK 1986 9. B3w microflake 31 x 25 x 10 mm (Fig. 6. 1) 10. B7 blade-like flake 33 x 15 x 7 mm (Fig. 6. 7) 11. B3 flake 38 x 30 x 7 mm (Fig. 7. 23) 12. B3w microflake 23 x 20 x 8 mm (Fig. 7. 20) 13. B7 blade-like flake 33 x 15 x 7 mm (Fig. 6. 8) 14. B3 flake 42 x 27 x 14 mm (Fig. 7. 24) 15. B3 flake, small saw pre-form 28 x 28 x 12 mm (Fig. 8. 36) 16. B3 decortication flake 32 x 25 x 7 mm (Fig. 6. 4) 17. B3 core rim flake 37 x 24 x 9 mm (Fig. 8. 35) 18. B3w microflake , small saw pre-form 31 x 25 x 10 mm (Fig. 6. 12) 19. B4 chip 27 x 32 x H mm (Fig. 7. 21) 20. B3w decortication microflake 33 x 22 x 6 mm (Fig. 8. 31) 21. B3w decortication microflake 22 x 26 x 7 mm (Fig. 8. 32) 22. B3w microflake 21 x 34 x 10 mm (Fig. 6. 3) 23. B3w microflake 24 x 30 x 9 mm (Fig. 6. 10) 24. B4 chip 18 x 28 x 7 mm (Fig. 8. 30) 25. B7w micro-blade-like flake 24 x 17 x 6 mm (Fig. 8. 26) 26. B3w decortication microflake 27 x 26 x 11 mm (Fig. 6. 2) 27. B6 knife, hafted with cortexed back 38 x 23 x 7 mm (Fig. 7. 25) 28. B6w micro-knife, core rim, semi-circular 29 x 17 x 11 mm (Fig. 7. 15) 29. B3 flake with burin edge 28 x 23 x 8 mm (Fig. 8. 33) 30. B3w microflake with initiation of slight saw retouch 27 x 20 x 12 mm (Fig. 7. 17) 31. B4 decortication chip 30 x 18 x 6 mm (Fig. 6. 5) 32. B3 decortication flake 33 x 21 x 11 mm (Fig. 6. 13) 33. B3w microflake 20 x 30 x 8 mm (Fig. 8. 38) 34. B7/9 fragment of blade-like flake 17 x 27 x 3 mm (Fig. 6. 11) 35. B3 flake, thick saw form 27 x 20 x 8 mm (Fig. 7. 18) 36. B3 decortication flake 23 x 22 x 13 mm (Fig. 8. 27) 37. B3 flake 23 x 15 x 5 mm (Fig. 8. 28) 38. B2w micro-core remnant 25 x 16 x 12 mm (Fig. 7. 16) 39. B4 chip 23 x 12 x 4 mm (Fig. 8. 39) The general level of processing is low, still a little bit higher for the Csepel-Rákóczi street material. It is also interesting to note that size range for Albertfalva in general and for the depot, specifically is larger which is again indicating that Albertfalva was, literally, more closely connected to the procurement of the Buda hornstone exploitation, notably the Budapest-Farkasrét silex mine. 133