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T. Dobosi Viola: Őskori telepek Boldogkőváralja környékén - Gyarmati Pál: A boldogkőváraljai régészeti anyag kőzettani vizsgálata. Függelék

38 I. VÖRÖS Fig. 1. — 1. ábra 1. Mezőlak-Tőzegtelep; 2.: Balatonkeresztúr; 3: Szabadszállás-Tőzegtelep; 4: Kecel-Tözegtelep; 5: Szajol-Felsőföld; 6: Tiszaug-Tópart; 7: Hódmezővásárhely-Bodzáspart; 8: Gyálarét-Szilágyi major; 9: Röszke-Lúdvár The quality of hunting, the selection or preference of certain animals are •determined by social aind individual demans, while the technique of hunting — apart from the ethology of the animals — depend on the economic and social organization of the culture. Because of their ethology and small individual number the hunting of Equids int the Carpathian Basin differs from that of herd animals (e.g. aurochs, hind, roe deer, wild boar) and of carnivores. Their killing must have been rather similar to the hunting of solitary animals, as the stag. Their hunting was a trailing one with a large radius of action or the animals were attacked from ambush. It is possible that the killing of Equids was carried out at the end of the summer and at the very beginning of the autumn when these animals went to the riparian pastures which, being in the inundation area of rivers, still remained wet at that time. Their hunting required an advanced technique and hunting implements as well as higly organized hunting groups. In the territory of Hungary during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods of the Early Holocene two wild equid species lived; namely a wild ass called ,,Asinus hydruntinus ' ' and an Eastern-European wild horse, the Equus ferus gmeliin (Antonius 1912.) (Table 1.) With the documentation of hitherto unpublished bone finds belonging to wild