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Lubomíra Kaminská: The Middle Palaeolithic settlements at the Skalka moundat Horka-Ondrej near Poprad (Slovakia)

Table 8: Hôrka-Ondrej, area D, Raw material composition The chipped stone industry has a flake character. Preserved remains of the cores show that they were disc shaped, size 26 x 25 x 16 mm and 34 x 66 x 30 mm (Fig. 4,12.), without a prepared striking platform. The majority of the flakes are amorphous, and only some had a preserved cortex. Retouched forms (Fig. 4,1), and a tetragonal flake (Fig. 4, 2,, 9,) are also present. The tool types, with the exception of a flake and a side-knife from layer 2, are represented only by one piece each. All of them are made on quartz. A flake with a lower retouch from layer 3 is pointed with a partially preserved cortex, size: 33 x 23 x 14 mm (Fig, 4, 3,). A convex side-scraper is made on a narrow flake, size: 38 x 14 x 13 mm (Fig, 4, 5.), A wedge-shaped burin is on a flake with a part of the cortex preserved (Fig. 4, 6.), A side-knife is made on a citrus slice shaped quartz flake (Fig. 4, 7.). An atypical side-knife has the cutting edge modified on the lower side by a retouch, size: 45 x 28 x 12 mm (Fig. 4,10.). A denticulate flake is retouched from the upper, and partially also from the lower part, size: 38 x 21 x 14 mm (Fig. 4, 8,), another denticulate flake has an alternating and low retouch, size: 39 x 23 x 16 mm (Fig. 4,11.). The tool composition of the chipped industry is common for Mousterian industries. Only the basal part of a radiolarite blade is an exception, size: 37 x 23 x 5 mm (Fig. 4, 4.) which was found on the northern slope, on the boundary of the bed and the trash deposit. The way of striking is almost Upper Palaeolithic, and it does not correspond to the other finds from area D. It is more comparable with the industry from area A, The chronological position of the early Mousterian from area D is determined by the age of the firm travertine in area C (profile C, layer 13), which forms one layer together with layer 3 from area D. The U/Th dating for the layer gives an age 143 500 ± 7%>

19 corresponding to the younger phase of the penultimate glacial (Riss), The industry from area D is the more recent continuation of the early Mousterian settlement documented in area B. 19 FORD 1995,127. 197