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. DOBOSI — ISTVÁN VÖRÖS pathian Basin. He was quick to perceive the possible connections of local Upper Palaeolithic cultures to the north and east.

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1 It is the firm belief of the present author that a Swiderian Pilisszántó descent should be rejected because of the following facts: — The uppermost (D^) layers of the Pilisszántó I rock shelter deposited in a cold tundra vegetation phase are at least one climatic phase older than the Swiderian tundra which followed the Alleröd. I should here like to emphasize that this fact does in no way support proposals for a reversed genetic connection. — Ventral face processing regarded as a technological-typological presequisite is not an exclusive trait. — The typological features and dimensions of the Swiderian differ fundamentally from those of the Pilisszántó industry.

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2 Unfortunately, Miklós Gábori's theory on a local Mesolithic with GravettoSwiderian and Swidero-Tardenoisian components is still no more than a hypothesis because of the lack of authentic finds.

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3 Fléchette This type could be helpful to derermine age and culture. This small point was distinguished at the site of La Gravette in 1933. It is a double point made on a flat, leaf-shaped blade; on both of its curved margins there is semi-abrupt retouch. Dimensions: length: between 24 and 72 mm; beradth between 8 and 17 mm; Average approx. 40—42 mm Xll mm.

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4 According to Otte this type usually occurs together with Gravettian points on most sites. At Aggsbach where they were found in a high proportion, the typological changes and dimensional modifications a could be easily traced.

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5 As regards the date of the archaeological finds from the Pilisszántó I rock shelter, it should be borne in mind that together with Gravettian points fléchette, appears already as early as about 25 000 (environs of Cracow, Willendorf and, later, Cejkov, etc.). General review A rewiew of the recent publications on the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe clearly shows that tool-assemblages of such a narrow typological range have not yet been reported. At the localities of the so-called Eastern Gravettian culture complex we can observe the following: the first industry, which can be characterized by backed blades, appears in the interpleniglacial in the N margin of the Carpathian range, in an area where eastern influences have its greatest effects and simultaneously with the Western-European Castelperronian.

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6) It must here be noted that while the name "Eastern Gravettian culture" is widely 4

1 Hillebrand 1935, 19, 35. 4

2 Rogowski 1979, Fig. 39; Rogowski- Rogowski 1981, 154- 157. 4

3 Gábori 1957, 8-52. 22. 4

4 Brésilien 1958, 222-223. 4

5 Otte 1981, 95, 104. 4

6 Rogowski 1983, 67.