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

fossils in the pits of the left-over quarry and in the meantime discovered a new, very rich continuation of the site investigated by Kormos about half a century before. He just meant to find me in the National Museum when sheer luck, an ever returning moment in my story, brought me there like unforeseen thunder. This is not just a simile, because in my first surprise, I ragged him duly for not telling me before, how did he dare.

.. for his new discovery. The outcome was that in the same year I had excavated the old-new site, collected some 2000 beautiful tools which I myself classified immediately as Mousterian and did not change it ever after just started to hesitate a bit when like an ambassador forced me to stand for his opinion. Vértes used to work on two sites of the three mentioned in this booklet: continued the excavations of Tata, while the excavation of the site Vértesszőlős can be completely connected to his name. He was born in Budapest, 1914, to a middle-class family. Completed his secondary school at Makó, and after maturity exam, enrolled the Medical University. He had to stop learning due to the modest means of the family. He earned his living by variable and exotic work (e.g., he used to work as acrobat By 1964, the Tata finds accumulated to a beautiful great monograph, in which István Skoflek elaborated the palaeobotanical chapter, I had personally written the archaeological part and some twenty more colleagues contributed and worked for it" (Tata, eine mittelpaläolithische Travertinsiedlung in Ungarn. Archaeologia Hungarica, Vol. 43-Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1964.) Friendship and collaboration with István Skoflek continued at the site Vértesszőlős, too. The educator, scientist, museologist István Skoflek collected and elaborated the calcareous tuff flora of Vértesszőlős as well, same as other plant fossils from younger archaeological sites. For his activity as educator he received a State Award in 1975. His early death broke off an exuberantly unfolding scientific career. in a circus). His interest gradually turned to exploration of caves. In the months immediately preceding World War II., he used to work in the Solymár rock-shelter together with his master, Ottokár Kadic. This hobby developed into a profession after the bitter circuits of World War II. After the creation of immediate material conditions of scientific work (i.e., clearing away the ruins) he was appointed leader of the Cave Supervising Authority, assigned László Vértes (Budapest, 1914 - Budapest, 1968) 63