Folia archeologica 53.

András Markó: The Upper Palaeolithic Site at Szob

16 MARKÓ ANDRÁS centripetal. The butt of the blades is punctiform, with small bulbe of percussion, with the exception of the pieces of poor quality raw material (quartzite and andesite). tools и V -S Hakes СЛ и cores raw material blocks intact pebbles burin spalls total iS Hydrothermal 17 20 10 86 7 20 2 7 169 30.51% pebble 11 15 9 80 6 15 2 7 145 Middle Slovakia» 6 5 1 6 1 5 24 Radiolarite 1 18 9 6 34 6.14% mauve 2 2 yellowish red 1 18 9 4 32 porcelanite 2 4 5 2 2 15 2.71% Nummulitic chert 8 4 5 40 2 5 1 65 11.73% grey 8 4 4 33 2 1 1 53 yellowish red 1 7 4 12 Chalcedony 1 2 3 0.54% Quartzite 9 2 51 102 1 22 1 188 33.94% Andesite 2 3 24 49 2 80 14.44% Total 37 50 83 261 10 98 5 10 554 100%. ÏT 7.14% 9.65% 16.02% 50.39% 1.93% 18.92%:0.97% .93% 100% Table 5.Raw material types used in the assemblage excavated by M. Gábori Eight retouched tools were made on blades and bladelets. The only one endscraper (Fig. 5.7.), dihedral burin (Fig. 5.1.), perforator (Fig. 5.2.) and notched tool (Fig. 5.3.) wears traces of use also. Beside these, a backed bladelet, three retouched blade, an 'atypical shouldered blade' is also present in the find assemblage. Four of the nine naturally backed blades 18 unmodified blades wear traces of use. As a total number of 90 flakes were excavated, i .e. 16.25% of the inventory. 12 of them were transformed into tools: 3 end-scrapers (Fig. 5.6.), ail end-scraperburin composite tool (Fig. 5.4.), 3 burins (one dihedral, one on a snap and one is multiple: Fig. 5.9.), a perforator and three notched flakes. Four pieces was considered as pebble slices and five flakes has slight usure retouch. More than half of the implements (261 pieces, 50.39%) were chips or small fragments of flakes; this technological class is represented by a lower number only the case of radiolarite, porcelanite and chalcedony. The majority of the burin spalls (10 pieces, i.e. 1.93%) are from the first series, only one piece of limnic quartzite is from the 2nd one. Among the tools (37 pieces, 7.14%) 23 were retouched ones. The most numerous groups among them are the burins (6 pieces) and end scrapers (4); three perforators, two end-scraper-burin composite tools and a backed bladelet is present in the assemblage. Seven flakes and blades were irregularly retouched or notched. Finally 14 pieces (slices, naturally backed blades and geometrically broken pebbles) were identified as pebble tools (Table 6.).