Csécs Teréz: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 51. (Győr, 2015)

T. Bíró Katalin: "Némi derű". Rómer Flória és a kőeszközök kutatása

ARRABONA 2013. 51.

TANULMÁNYOK

“SOME GAIETY”

FLÓRIS RÖMER AND THE STUDY OF THE STONE IMPLEMENTS

From the wide and colourful oeuvre of Flóris Römer, works and results on lithic artefacts are summarised. The pioneering activity of Römer is apparent on all fields of Hungarian archaeology; he had an initiative role in the study of stone artefacts as well. In the early stage of the recognition of Hungarian prehistoric archaeology when the research of the ’diluvial’ periods, i.e., the Ice Age and the Palaeolithic times was not even raised, Römer was the first to write about ’ancient stone age’ implements. He used to apply seemingly very modern methods for gathering information, notably community participation via ’letters’. He encouraged the intelligentsia of his times, even simple tillers, to pay attention on possible relics of the past and communicate them - via ’letters’ on the columns the incipient professional journal, Archaeologiai Értesítő which became the leading technical journal of archaeology in Hungary. He was building a knowledge-basis on the strength of such data and had the results mapped. He was attentive on, not only to simple morphological attributes (=typology), but aspects of raw materials as well, in which he saw the proofs for prehistoric trade and system of contacts. Strengthening the interdisciplinary line he used to record popular names and ethnographic observations on stone artefacts as well.

Katalin T. Biró