Fülöp Éva – Cseh Julianna szerk.: „Die aktuellen Fragen des Mittelpaläolithikums in Mitteleuropa”. „Topical issues of the research of Middle Palaeolithic period in Central Europe”. Tata, 20-23 October 2003. (Tudományos Füzetek 12. Tata, 2004)

Árpád Ringer–Marie-Hélene Moncer: The Taubachian from Diósgyőr-Tapolca cave (Hungary)

T=6i9 Cave Level 4 Trench I Level 5 Trench II Level 4 Trench II quartzporphyre 277-60,6% 5-50% 21-17,1% 16-55,1% porphyrites 45-9,8% 1-10% 57-46,3% 2-6,9% Quartz 17-3,7% 3-10,3% Flint 46-10,1% 11-8,9% 2-6,9% radiolarites ? 10-2,2% Obsidian 22-4,8% 2-20% 3-2,4% 1-3,3% Quartz-quartzite 46-10,5% 2-20% 1-0,8% 4-13,8% Chert 1-0,2% 22-17,9% Sandstone 5-4,1% Calcite 3-2,4% 1-3,4% Total 464 10 123 29 Table 1: The kinds of stones according to the location of the excavations The porphyres and the quarztporphyres are local,

11 as the flint, the cherts, the quartzquartzites and the sandstones which can come from the Bükk mountain. However, the obsidian could not be collected from this mountain. Consequently, this raw material comes from a long distance area. The closest obsidian layers are located in the Tokaj mountain, from 40 to 60 km from the cave.

12 The work of the raw materials: a same processing system, a full "chaîne opératoire" for the porphyrites and a partial "chaîne opératoire" for the flint and the obsidian (fig. 4, 5, 6.) quartzporphyre porphyrites quartz flint obsidian quartzquartzite Cortical flakes 7,4% 16,6% 7,i% 11,3% 4,7% Large and thick flakes 5i,9% 55,5% 7,1% 52,8% 52,4% 45,2% Backed flakes 22,2% 22,2% 7,1% 32% 19% 42,8% Elongated flakes 4,4% 78,5% Thin flakes 9,4% 2,7% 1,8% 19% 4,7% Cores 4,4% 2,7% 1,8% 9,5% 2,4% Tools on flakes 13,3% 24,4% 29,4% 75% 18,2% 22,4% Table 2: Types of flakes according to the types of stones from the excavation inside the cave " VERTES-TÓTH 1963.; MESTER 1989.; 1995. 12 TAKÁCS-BÍRÓ 1986. 163