Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 68. (Budapest 1976)
Jánossy, D. ; Kordos, L.: Pleistocene-holocene Mollusc and Vertebrate fauna of two caves in Hungary
Therefore in the sequence of layers in Petényi Cave a faunal change characterized by the above-mentioned tendencies can be observed. The lower limit of this change can be placed into Alleröd while the upper limit of it into our age. Characteristic species of Alleröd are Rana mehelyi, Lagopus, Sicista, Microtus nivalis, Microtus gregalis, Microtus oeconomus, Ochotona and Lepus timidus. Ursus spelaeus and Rupicapra can be considered as relic species. The real great faunal change took place between the Alleröd and Atlantic (Neolithic) layers. From the layers containing Hallstatt pottery upwards we have already the present fauna with micromammal species Pityrnys-Mijodes-Glis- Apodemus. The following palaeoecological conclusion can be drawn from the fauna: Layers P L and H v were deposited in a period when there were open areas and abundant water nearby, while later the upper layers indicate a period of rapid and gradual afforestation. These observations can be completed with anthrakotomical and pollenanalyses (STIEBER 195(3) according to which in Mesolithie layers Larix-Picea and Pi n us silvestris are dominant over Quercus and Acer. In Neolithic layers conifers are already absent while Corylus and Carpinus appear together with the quantitative increase of Quercus. Pollen analysis made on the material of Layer H v revealed the following arboreal species: Pinus 9.7%, Tilia 16.4%, Alnus 5.5%, Betula 68.4% (Analysis made by MIHÁLTZ - FARAGÓ; in VÉRTES 1956). Rejtek I. Rock Shelter (D.J. —L.K.) Rejtek I. Rock Shelter (otherwise Szarvaskő Rock Shelter or Emmy Rock Shelter) is in the middle of the Bükk Mountains east of the village Répáshuta in a valley, about 500 metres south of workers' hostel called Rejtek. The rock shelter opens at the eastern slope of the valley near the clearing of transmission line. At the northwestern end of the Szarvaskő Hill a 10-15 metres high rock mass can be found under which there are several rock shelters and clefts. One of them is the Rejtek I. Rock Shelter. On the southern side of the rock there is another rock shelter (Rejtek II. Rock Shelter) which is also suitable for excavations. Rejtek I. Rock Shelter originated in the well-stratified Middle Triassic so-called Répáshuta Limestone. Its entrance faces west, it lies 8-10 metres and 500 metres high above valley-bottom and sea level, respectively. Its width is 9 metres in N — S direction, its original height and horizontal depth were 1.60 metres and 2.50 metres, respectively. Behind the rock shelter there is a lower semicircular lateral branch leading into it with two holes (Fig. 3). On the 27th of April in 1957 JÁNOSSY made a test excavation at the southern end of this small lateral branch (Fig. 3 "D") further marked as "Rejtek, test hole". Between the 28th and 29th of September in 1958 this hole was deepened further and a small test pit was dug into the humus of the rock shelter proper. Its material was marked as "side-nich 1-2-3-4.", with each layer representing a unit of 10 centimetres. Between the 19th of June and the 6th of July during the systematic excavations a trial trench was dug at right angles Fig. 3. Sketch map and transversal profile of the Rejtek 1. Bock Shelter. —I-HI : Excavation blocks; A — B: Direction of the profile; C and D: Test holes; E — H: Wall rock viz. blocks of stone; J: Lateral branch; K: Trial trench; P: Starting point of measurements; 1-7: Layers (further explanations see in text).
