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MATERIAL OF THE KISKEVÊLY CAVE 37 of the canines and incisors, of fossil bear" in a mass quantity. As for their form "... to suppose that it is due to a mere chance would be as unjustified" as it issure that their use is explained by "necessity" that is by the shortage of lithic raw materials. Csoklovina cave 5 b Márton Roska publishes them among the results of his excavations Kiskevély cave (Figs. 9.-10). "At last I have to mention those blade-like tools made of the canines of cave bear, which were found in a very large quantity, and some of which is so perfect and all of them show a manufacturing so similar to each other that we have to suppose that those people who made them had an extraordinary skill to work this unsuitable material so perfectly." 5 7 The "standard" character, the uniform "manufacturing" are due to the anatomical characteristics of the teeth, while as for their dimensions the dispersion is far bigger. Investigating thoroughly these "tooth-blades" one by one it is obvious at once that some of these "tools" are absolutely unsuitable for any function. In 1935 in spite of H. Breuil's and of H. Obermaier's negative opinion Hillebrand remained insistent on his earlier opinion. 5 8 Pilisszántó I. (Orosdy) rock-shelter Tivadar Kormos writes: "...the early man who lived in the territory of our country at the end of the Ice Age had a great predilection to make so-called toothblades from canines of cave bear and even occassionally from those of cave hyena. These tooth-blades which are totally unknown outside Hungary (!) are present in almost every cave of us where man lived during the Pleistocene. .. by now already a special denotation of them has become necessary : " ... Following dr. Mihály Lenhossék's suggestion, who is the president of Speleological Department, I introduce the term Kiskevélyi type blade" for these tools ... 5 9 In this way had become Tivadar Kormos the author of the terminus technicus and Kiskevélyi cave had become the eponymous site, though it was not the first site with these finds. Tivadar Kormos reconstructed also the manufacture (splitting, polishing) and way of use of tooth-blades (that is grasping them between the thumb and forefinger). He attributes them a definite stratigraphic-cultural importance, they appear in the Aurignacian culture, the culmination of their development was during the Solutrean, survived into Magdalenian together with cave bear and disappeared in the middle of the last phase. Tivadar Kormos is right in as much as cave bear is really a fundamental element of the fauna of the "anonymous" phase of the lower complex of layers of Pilisszántó. 6 0 5 6 Roska, M. 1912.32, 36. fig. 5 7 Hillebrand,]. 1913/b. 162. 5 8 Hillebrand,]. 1935. 16. 5 9 Kormos, T. 1915. 336-337. 6 0 Dobosi, V.-Vörös, I. 1987. 58.
