Folia archeologica 54.

STUDIES ON THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC ASSEMBLAGE OF SZOB 21 dustry (presence of'archaic' pieces and short blanks, reuse of broken pieces) which is generally searched in the exploitation of pebble deposits of various ages.

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9 The rejuvenation of the broken flake end-scraper from the old excavated assemblage of Szob is especially interesting in the light of the analogue reworked radiolarite core from the upper layer of Ságvár (Fig. 6.2.), which was also broken and both fragments were worked again. This observation strengthens the earlier classification of the industry into the Ságvárian circle too. As the next step it would be desirable to carry on the refitting studies on other sites in the Danube bend and compare the results of this work, to answer the questions, outlined in the introduction. On the other hand, the inferences of this work are quite limited, because of the lack of the planigraphical data in Szob. In the future another possible way will be to study the nature of the nest-like find concentrations, interpreted as workshops or place of domestic activities, etc.

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0 to study and document the possible spatial fragmentation of the reduction sequence of a core or the 'biography' of an artefact, especially of the composite tools, similar to the piece depicted on Fig. 2.3. Table 1. Refit groups in the assemblage from Szob, excavated by M. Gábori. nr raw material imported piece a nr rtefacts present in the assemblage type interpretation 1 mauve coloured radiolarite prepared core 2 chips core preparation 2 reddish yellow radiolarite intact pebble 17 core, blanks, chips : _ decortication, core préparai tion and exploitation 2a blade fragments natural (transverse) fragmentation 3 limnic quartzite intact pebble 3 Hakes (pebble slices) decortication 4 limnic quartzite intact pebble 2 flakes (pebble slices) decortication 5 limnic quartzite intact pebble 13 fragments natural fragmentation 5a core, flakes core exploitation 6 limnic quartzite intact nodule 4 fragments natural fragmentation 7 quartzite intact pebble 4 flakes decortication 7a fragments of a flake 'Siret' break 8 limnic quartzite intact pebble 6 flakes, fragments decortication 9 limnic quartzite intact pebble 4 fragments natural fragmentation 10 nummulithic chert intact pebble 5 fragments natural fragmentation 11 andesite intact slab 11 fragments 'slicing', fragmentation 12 andesite intact slab 3 fragments natural fragmentation 13 andesite intact slab 2 fragments natural fragmentation 14 quartzite intact pebble 5 raw material block, flakes, fragments flaking, natural fragmentation 3

9 GÁBORI 1959, 7; DOBOSI 1992; TOLNAI-DOBOSI 2001, 111. - This raw material preference of alluvial origin seems to be intentional, since relatively high quality radiolarite banks are lying only 8 km from the Ságvárian site of Mogyorósbánya. 4

0 BÁNESZ et al. 1992, 17-18.