Agria 20. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 1984)

Dancza János: A subalyuki ősember-maradványok sorsa (visszaemlékezés)

dem Bruch des Profils des Vierecks ll/III. kamen die Bruchteile des Kiefers eines Neandertalmenschens zum Vorschein. Kadiö kam, nach einer telefonischen Mitteilung, am 2. Mai zur Höhle und begann mit dem Verfasser die Freilegung der Vierecke 12/HI. und 15/111. Sie fanden im Viereck 15/III. den Schädel und weitere Skelettsteile eines im Zeitabschnitt des Zahnwechsels lebenden Kindes. János Dancza sah die Funde nach einem Jahr beim Anthropologen Dr. Lajos Bartucz wieder. Die Überreste des Erwachsenen waren inzwischen stark beschädigt und vom Kind blieb nur der Schädel übrig. Dancza bat in seinem Brief vom 22. November Dr. Lajos Lóczy, Direktor des Naturwissenschaftlichen Museums, um die Untersuchung der Angelegenheit. Der Verfasser der Rückerinnerung beweist mit Vorführung von Daten, daß die Funde — im Gegensatz zu der Behauptung der Verfasser von mehreren Büchern (Bartucz, Vértes) - nicht im Laufe der Freilegung, sondern bei Dr. Kadic beschädigt wurden. Der Verfasser erinnert sich mit dieser Studie an die Umstände der Freilegungen zurück, und korrigiert die über Schicksal der Funde verbreiteten falschen Ansichten. János Dancza The Fate of the Remains of the Prehistoric Man of Subalyuk (Remembrance) In his study the author recollects an important event in Hungarian research concerning the prehistoric man. On the 27th of April 1932 the remains of an adult, type Neanderthal, and those of a child were found in the Hór-Valley in Subalyuk cave (County of Borsod). The find was made by a group of the Friends of Nature of Eger, with the guiding of János Dancza, as Dr. Ottokár Kadiő did not accept the leading of the excavation. Formerly Dr. Jenő Hillebrand had undertaken excavations in this cave but at 30 cm he reached bottom. János Dancza made the statement, that this was a huge limestone sheet, which broke loose from the wall. Under this sheet fauna and tools dating from the glacial period were found. The systematical disclosure of the cave - according to the archeological method aquired from Dr. Kadic" — began on February 9th (picture 1—2). While trying to protect themselves from the cold János Dancza observed that in different caves the prehistoric man light the fire in different places (see: János Dancza: Problems of Heating During the Glacial Period. Búvár 1939 V. year, No. 5). On the 27th of April, after having broken off the square profile section 11 /III, the pieces of the jaw-bone of an adult Neanderthal man appeared. After a telephone call Kadic" arrived on May 2nd to the cave and together with the author they began the disclosure of the squares 12/III and 15/III. In the square 15/III the skull and some other bony system pieces of a child, in the age of changing teeth, were found. János Dancza saw the finds again a year later at the anthropologist's Dr. Lajos Bartucz. The remains of the adult were seriously damaged by that time and nothing was left but the child's skull. On November 22nd 1933, Dancza wrote a letter to Lajos Lóczy, director of the Museum of Natural sciences, asking him to investigate the matter. The author proves with the enumerating of facts that the finds — contrary to the statements of the authors of several books (Bartucz, Vértes) were not damaged in the course of the disclosure, but at Dr. Kadic"s. In his study the author recollects the circumstances of the disclosure and corrects the wide-spread erronous opinions concerning the fate of the finds. 138