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26 VIOLA 'Г. DOBOSI intact end. The perforation was started from both sides which is usual among prehistoric objects. One side of the amulet is completely flat, the other side is slightly convex. This convex side, certainly representing the original exterior surface of the tusk, is decorated with interesting incised patterns. This decoration consists of three (italics mine DV) rows of ladder-like or "pearl" patterns sunk into the surface along the pendant. These three rows terminate independently toward the hole of the pendant, while at the opposite end the two outside rows are connected by two or three curved lines." "This part of the amulet was broken off early in the Pleistocene. At first sight the ornamental motif seem to be purely geometric pattern...". Unfortunately, the object was broken under circumstances which are no longer possible to reconstract. While we have no information on the broken part, there are at present two rows of patterns on the object. PILISSZÁNTÓ ROCK-SHELTER Idol with a finger-biscuit shape (Fig. 3, 5.) Inv. № Pb 651

/с. This "carefully manufactured, flat oddment"

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1 made of a mammoth tusk was found during T. Kormos' excavations in the D 6—7 red and ashy clay of the cave. Its dimensions: 22—8 mms. Over its entire surface is scaring resulting from contact with some hard, rough object which might have been the polishing instrument although the movements of cave rubble during dislocations migh have created these damages, too. The Late Würm layer yielded a perforated Turritella as well, certainly collected from the Upper Oligocene outcrops, nearby. Inv. № Pb/575. (Fig. 3,9.) S A G V Á R This is a famous site with two occupation levels and is, at the same time, the eponym site of a period which is characterized by a certain rise in temperatures at about 18.000 B.P. at the end of the Würm.

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2 Foundations of Paleolithic huts were observed for the first time in Hungary at this site by M. Gábori.

33 The most distinguished of the finds from this site is the baton de commandement (Inv. № Pb 81/220).

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4 It is a reindeer antler perforated just below the crown. It is not decorated. Although this artifact is a fairly common in Western Europe, especially in French sites, in our country it is still an unique specimen. A shell (Fig. 3, 6.) and a Dentalium also represent jewelry at the site.

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1 Kormos, T., A pilisszántói kőfülke. MKFI Évkönyve 23 (1915) 339. 3

2 Gábori, M.—Gábori, К, Acta Arch. Hung. 8 (1957) 4—44. Gábori, M.—Csánk, V., Acta Arch. Hung 30 (1978) 3—11. 3

3 Gábori, M., Arch. Ért. 86 (1959) 3—19. Gábori, M., Acta Arch. Hung. 27 (1965) 111—123. 3

4 Gábori, M., A késői paleolitikum Magyarországon. (Budapest 1964) 40. Tab. XIII 3

5 Gábori, M.—Gábori, V., op. cit. 13.