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8 V. T. DOBOSI I. Lower Valaeolithics Abbeville: centre of finds from different sites, Palaeolithic and younger; it is known since 1838. From the finds collected on the Champ de Mars H. Breuil donated some items to the National Museum. The hand-axes of the site were dated formely in the earliest phase of the Chellean, according to modern terminology, howerer, they are Lower Achetdian. 1 In our collection are a chopping-tool (M.: 100—48—41— mm), a pic (M: 109—45—45 mm), two handaxes (M: 11—65—30 mm and 124—71—38 mm), an ovoid hand-axe-scraper (M: 75—60 mm) and as attendant industry several worked flakes. St. Acheul: The gravel- and sand-pits, opened on the territory of the village, yielded between 1854 and 1870 beautifully worked hand-axes, about 800 pieces a year. 2 The find material of several cultures is known from different findplaces, chronologically from the Mindel to the end of the Riss/Wiirm. The most characteristic finds are the hand-axes, a type determinant for the great Lower Palaeolithic cultural circle, whose eponymous site the village is. Our collection possesses two hand-axes, collected in 1862 and 1875 respectively, taken over from the Geological Institute of the University with the remark on the file: "Material of J. Szabó." Elemér Vadász donated a cleaver and as attendant industry some worked flakes. Adamgarh: From the collecting of László Vértes in 1968. The cleaver, chipped from a volcanic raw material as well as a chopping-tool of quartzite belong to the Indian Acheulian culture, the Madrasian, 3 Attarampakkam : L. Vértes brought from there in 1968 a regular, almondshaped hand-axe; the object was, however, lost. In Central- and Southern India two fila of the Lower Palaeolithic cultures lived collaterally: the gravel industries belonged to the Soanian, the hand-axe industries — attaching themselves to the European and hand-axe circles — to the Madrasian. 4 Baringo: Vértes collected in 1966 some fragments from the site. The fauna from the Kanjera-pluvialis dates the site from the middle of the Riss to the beginning of the Würm (with European terminology). The finds belong to the Acheulian, their nearest parallels come from the famous surface site of hand-axes, Olorgesailie. 5 Boncelles: Some objects came from this site into our collection as stone artefacts, Fagnian type. The revision of the "culture" began as early as in 1900: according to Rutot the objects of the so-called Fagnian culture are but eoliths 1 Howell, F. C., Observations on the earlier phases of the European Lower Palaeolithic. AmAnthr 68(1966) 110. 2 Müller — Karpe, H., Handbuch der Vorgeschichte. I: Altsteinzeit. (München 1966) 282—283. 3 Ibid. 94 —95.; Handbuch der Urgeschichte. Ed. K. J. Narr. I: Ältere und mittlere Steinzeit. (Bern 1966) 120. ' See note 3. 5 Cole, S., The prehistory of East Africa. (New York 1963) 75—76.
