Folia archeologica 54.

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30 GYÖRGY LENGYEL classification of Gábori Ságvár and the similar assemblages were separated from the Danube bend type Gravettian industries which contained a larger portion of blades and blade tools of classical Upper Palaeolithic types.

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0 Contrary to this, Vértes on the basis of the short endscrapers observed similarities between Arka, Szekszárd-Palánk, and Ságvár,

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1 each of which represented a different archaeological culture in Gábori's system. The twofold division of Gábori was partially adapted by J. K. Kozlowski in the overview of the late Palaeolithic in the Carpathian basin. Kozlowski called all sites dated to the period of Ságvár Ságvárian, including Pilismarót which according to Gábori belonged to the Danube bend group.

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2 Consequently the Hungarian research did not use Kozlowski's division as he originally proposed.

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3 Data of the sediment analysis and the radiocarbon dating the site was discussed in wider European chronological context in the 1970s. Gábori-Csánk concluded that the organic material rich levels at Ságvár were equal to the Lascaux interstadial in France

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4 and henceforth called this period in Hungary Lascaux-Ságvár interstadial.

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5 Contrary to what was claimed by Gábori-Csánk, the study of faunal remains of Ságvár pointed out no correspondence to interstadial features,

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6 and it was proposed to use the term Ságvár stage to sites characterized by reindeer fauna and dated to between 22 and 17 к years BP.

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7 Lately the quaternary land snail fauna of the loess sequence of Ságvár was studied by Krolopp and Sümegi.

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8 According to their analysis more or less in the level of the lower archaeological layer of Gábori a 5 cm thick humic level was observed. Mollusk shells and charcoals were dated from this level to 18,510 ± 160 (Deb-8822) and 19,770 ± 150 (Deb-8821), respectively.

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9 This research pointed out that the dated level was embedded during a cold and humid climate and snail species allowed to deduce that the mean temperature of July was about 12-12.6 Celsius. This result supports the conclusion of the earlier faunal analysis which also did not point о Lit interstadial features. 3. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVISION OF THE SITE IN 2008-2009 3.1. Excavation archives The archaeological finds and the original documentation of Ságvár excavations are stored at the Hungarian National Museum. Unfortunately, several excavation documents and field notes are missing or were not made. This archival situation makes any research on the archaeological assemblages difficult. Accessible documents are two maps dated to 1936 which show the plans of field works between 1928 and 1936,

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0 four maps showing details of the 1936 excavation, a page of summary with handwriting on the excavations between 1928 and 1936 and a two-page report and site map from 1941. While Gábori-Gábori mentions notes of S. Gallus, no documents of such are available on the 1937 fieldworks.

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0 GÁBORI 1964a, 39, 61; GÁBORI-GÁBORI 1957, 19. 3

1 VÉRTES 1966, 14. 3

2 KOZLOWSKI 1978. 1979. 3

3 GÁBORI-CSÁNK 1986; GÁBORI 1989; TOLNAI-DOBOSI 2001. 3

4 LEROI-GOURHAN 1968. 3

5 GÁBORI-CSÁNK 1978. 3

6 VÖRÖS 1982, 62. 5

7 DOBOSI-VÖRÖS 1987. 3

8 KROLOPP-SÜMEGI 2002. 3

9 KROLOPP-SÜMEGI 2002. 4

0 Inventory number of the Archives of the Hungarian National Museum: 20.s. 4

1 Inventory number of the Archives of the Hungarian National Museum: 40.S.II.