Folia archeologica 37.

Korek József: Karáth József (1913-1985)

30 VIOLA T. DOBOSI - ISTVÁN VÖRÖS PALAEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS Pb 51/109: scraper. M: 37x29 mm. A wide, flat flake with a "déjeté" type striking platform and a big bulb of percussion. It has two notches along its right edge, the its working end is beaked and worked by steep retouch. Along its left edge there is a lightly scalloped marginal retouch. The base is slightly damaged. The upper end of the flake is truncated with a slightly oblique fine retouch. The raw material is slightly stripped, light grey hornstone with a silky lustre (Fig. З.1.)

10 Pb 51/110: retouched fiake. M: 20x17 mm. Its surface is heavily worn. It is a flake without a bulb of percussion. Its margin has a scalloped alternating retouch. The degree, direction and intensity of retouch differ. They appear to be causal. The surface of the flake is much more worn than certain sections of the worked margins. It is therefore probable that at least part of the "retouch" is nothing more than later damage or notches which were produced after the implement had been embedded in the sediment. The raw material is obsidian (Fig. 3.2.)

11 According to the excavation notes the two implements were found at the border between the "L 8 and L 9" — or according to the new numbering, at the border between L 7 and L 8 (Fig. 1.; No 11; mark "X")

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3. Taking into consideration the occurence of tbe Jankovichian Culture in the Carpathian Basin

14 the scraper was probably in the reddish brown layer (L 9). The Palaeolithic inventory book of the Hungarian National Museum contains four animal bone fragments coming from the "lower group of layers" as they were called in the excavation notes. They are denoted: "Magdalenian I." Only one of them could be hypothetically regarded as a bone implement. Pb 51/113: bone projectil point. M: 21 x6x4 mm. Its shoulders are oblique, the tip length is 18 mm. The surface is slightly uneven, it is roughly worked and, the shoulders are defined. (Fig. 3. 3.)

15 According to L. Vértes the projectil point came the brown layer (L 8) from

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6. An analogy to this tool is known from the lower layer (= group: D

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7) of Pilisszántó Rock-Shelter I.

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7 There are no traces of work or use on the three other bone fragments — regarded earlier as implements

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8. These bones are as follows: - rib fragment, "bone smoothing implement" (Pb 51/111) M: 40x17 mm. — small, angular bone fragment, "fragment of a bone point" (Pb 51/112) M: 22x14 mm. 1

0 Vértes, L., 1951 Fig. 4. 1

1 Vértes, L., 1951 Fig. 3. 1

2 Vértes, L., 1955b 270. 1

3 Vértes, L., 1965 325. 1

4 Gábori- Csánk, V., op. cit. (1983) 284-. 1

5 Vértes, L., 1951 Fig. 5. 1

6 Vértes, L., 1965 325. 1

7 Kormos, T., op. cit. (1915) Fig. 13., 337. 1

8 Vértes, L., 1965 325.