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)

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

Layers with finds from travertine mounds in the Spis region dated by the U/ Th method to an older period than the last interglacial are the following: Vysné Ruzbachy 204 000 and 231 000, and Beharovce-Sobocisko more than 206 900, and Hranovnica more than 264 700 years.

20 The middle phase of the Middle Palaeolithic The middle phase of the Middle Palaeolithic at Hôrka-Ondrej is represented by the small sized Taubachian industry uncovered in beds from the last interglacial in area C (Fig. 5,). Area C was studied in three profiles (Table 9.). Profile Layer Amount of pieces Ci 9 1 Ci 12 5 C1-C3 10 C3 12 4 C2 4 3 C2 8 1 Total 24 pc Table 9: Hôrka-Ondrej, area C The finds were concentrated in the lower part of the Ci and C2 profiles in layer 12, where the presence of charcoal and burnt animal bones indicated a possible existence of a fireplace. Charcoals of Pinus sp. found at the bottom of the fireplace document the presence of man on this site at the time of travertine sedimentation (layers 10-12) in this part of the travertine mound.

21 The chipped stone industry was made on quartz. It was composed mainly offtakes of average size 27,8 x 21,8 x 10 mm. Small flakes were the majority but larger pointed pieces (Fig. 6, 3-4.), spindle-shaped flakes often with quartz cortex (Fig. 6, 5.), a wider tetrahedral flake (Fig. 6, 9.), a flake with cortex on both ends (Fig. 6, 7.), and flakes from an edge of a core (Fig. 6, 8., 11.) appeared as well. Only one core without a prepared striking platform was preserved, size: 34 x 33 x 25 mm (Fig. 6, 6.). Finished tools in layer 12 of profile Ci comprised a short straight transversal sidescraper, size: 19 x 23 x 9 mm (Fig. 6,1.), and in profile C3 one denticulate flake, size: 26 x 32 x 15 mm (Fig. 6, 2.), In the upper layers there was a small flake in layer 9 of profile Ci, a burin type 32 in layer 8 of profile C2, (Fig. 6,10.), and three flakes in layer 4. 20 HAUSMANN-BRUNNACKER 1988, 49. 21 HAJNALOVÁ-HAJNALOVÁ 2000,163. 198