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Viola T. Dobosi - István Vörös: Adatok a lovasi őskori festékbánya leletegyüttesének értékeléséhez

10 V. T. DOBOSI—[. VÖRÖS Similarly, in foreign special literature the bone implements of the Lovas paint mine have remained rather without reaction. In meticulous summaries, as e.g. the Handbuch der Vorgeschichte by H. Müller-Karpe, where we find even Dunaföldvár and Süttő among the more important sites of Hungary, Lovas is disregarded, although it is certainly of greater importance than the two other places mentioned. It is absent also from the Handbuch der Urgeschichte, vol. I (Ältere und Mittlere Steinzeit), edited by К. J. Narr, to mention only the most important handbooks in general use. The site is mentioned by F. Bordes as "Lovas cave near Balaton", as an example of the special use of bone implements in the Szeleta culture.

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1 The most valid justification for a re-valuation of the Lovas find material is, though, that we still lack a documentation of the fauna, resp. that its revision, having a great influence on the chronological placing, has been published in an organ rather inaccessible for archaeologists. 2. The animal bone assemblage of the site The area of the paint mine yielded 142 animal bones, 70 of them showing signs of working resp. of wearing off by use (Fig. 5). When making a revision of the find assemblage of the site,

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2 D. Jánossy revised the remains of the giant stag (Megaloceros giganteus Blumenbach) and the capercaillie (Tetrao sp. ind.).

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3 The division of the osteological material according to species is as follows: Elk - Alces alces (Linné) 104 pes Red deer - Cervus elaphus Linné 21 Reindeer - Rangifer tarandus (Linné) 1 Ibex - Capra (Ibex) carpathorum (Koch) 1 Wild boar - Sus scrofa Linné 1 Horse (small form!) - Equus sp. ind. 1 Crane - Grus grus (Linné) 1 Undefiniable bone fragments: 12 pes Description of the osteological material: 1. Alces alces (Linné) - 12 antler fragments (5 antler tine fragments, 1 palm fragment, 6 fragments of antler cortex), sin. M

1 fragment, lower edge piece of corpus mandibulae, fragment of sin. ramus mandibulae, 2 vertebrae cervicales, 30 rib fragments, 30 ulna pees (6 dext. - 6 sin. ulna pieces, fragments of 1 sin. olecranon, 7 dext. - 4 sin. pes of corpus ulnae, 2 pes of corpus ulnae, 4 "flakes" of corpus ul1

1 Bordes, F., The Old Stone Age. WUL 30. (London 1968) 180. 1

2 Mészáros, Gy.-Vértes, I

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3 Jánossy, D., Acta Zool. 10(1964) 148;. Id., Plio-Pleistocene bird remains from the Carpathian Basin. IV. (in press)