Viola T. Dobosi: Paleolithic Man in the Által-ér Valley (Tata, 1999)

logical units: the culture of the Homo ereclus - (Early man) - is the Lower Palaeolithic period, that of Homo neanderthalensis - (Neanderthal man) - is the Middle Palaeolithic, and the culture of the Homo sapiens fossiiis is the Upper Palaeolithic. These great archaeological units were unfolded even in their own period in great variety and richness. As the human activity of the Ice Age is almost exclusively documented by the archaeological finds, the individual groups of the population are termed by the name of the archaeological cultures: these are find assemblages separable on the basis of tool forms or tool-making technology, limited in time and space. These cultures are the basic archaeological categories. It is certainly biassed and less colourful than the life of the former communities, but at least existing and available for analysis. Considering the three Palaeolithic sites of the Által-ér valley, at Vértesszőlős a Lower Palaeolithic pebble-processing industry was found (this site is at the same time the eponym site of this culture), at Tata, a Middle Palaeolithic industry processing also pebbles was found, termed after a German site as Taubachien). In the Szelim-cave, two Middle Palaeolithic communities of entirely different cultural traditions used to take shelter; a population working on medium size quartzite pebbles and later on another industiy producing 8-10 cm large bifacial tools made of shiny liver-brown silex (This latter population was named after the Jankovich-cave, lying also in Komárom-Esztergom county). 18