Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 68. (Budapest 1976)
Jánossy, D. ; Kordos, L.: Pleistocene-holocene Mollusc and Vertebrate fauna of two caves in Hungary
to the base line of the rock shelter in E —W direction. The trench reached the rock at 1.40 metres' depth. The material was collected from the northern half of this trench and this place was called Block II. Within this block four levels were separated; they are: 1. level approx. 0-30 cms 2. level approx. 30-60 cms 3. level approx. 60-90 cms 4. or "Neolithic" level 90-120 (140) cms Toward the interior of the cave the material of the trial trench became more and more stony and the rock-bottom ended. Therefore digging at this place was continued. The name of this part is Block III with four levels representing 20 centimetres each; Block III 140-160 cms, 160-180 cms, 180-200 cms and 200-220 cms. At the beginning the investigation of this block was very difficult because of the rubble in it that is why in this place onlv sporadic faunal remains were collected under various labels like, "Block" III at 1.10 meters' depth, northern part", "Block III 110-114, Northern part", "HI/3 110-117 N" and "Block III Northern part 110-140". Later JÁNOSSY in his preliminary report (1962) renumbered these complicated marks as follows: 1. 0-90 cms. Every layer the surface humus. As the material of the trial trench and the socalled Block I was not gathered in, it contains levels 1-2-3 of Block II. 2. 90-140 cms in Blocks I and II. Faunistically representing the 4th ("Neohthic") level of Block II. 3. Sporadic finds stony layer between 110-140 cms in Block III. corresponding to the 4th ("Neolithic") level of Block II. Therefore layers 2 and 3 represent more or less the same age and sediments. 4-7. The position of these layers is clear. They correspond to levels 140-160, 160-180, 180-200 and 200-220 cms of Block III. With the aid of collection-cards and notes made during the excavations the stratigraphical positon and nomenclature were cleared unambiguously. As in layer 1 three levels of Block II had been earlier united and later during complete analysis they became appreciable by themselves too, we follow the original numbering. It means that downwards the following samples constitue a stratigraphical column: Block HI. 140-160, 160-180, 180200, 200-220. As a direct continuity of layers between Blocks II and III is lacking we mark it with hiatus or uncertainty in the graph. The same graph (Fig. 4) contain JÁNOSSY'S (1962) contracted marks, too. Samples from the side niche and test hole are mixed, while other samples marked differenty from the above-mentioned ones contain only sporadic finds so they were disregarded during the faunistical evaluation. In level 2 of Block II a coin from the period of the Austro —Hungarian Monarchy together with some broken glass were found. In Block II at. 1.10 metres' depth was a mud-flake level with a crude, thick-walled sherd being so atypic that according to MOZSOLICS (in JÁNOSSY; 1962) it could be placed among every prehistoric culture from the Neolithic to Bronze Age. At the same place (Block II 4 ["Neolithic"] level) a chalcedone tool and an awl made from the fibula of swine were found. In the upper part of Block III (140-180 cms) a fragment of a trapeze ( ? transverse arrowhead) was found. According to VÉRTES the tool is a characteristic Mesolithie type being wellknown however from Neolithic, too. In the lower part of Block III (180-220 cms) only some atypical flakes were found the raw material of which are obsidian, "Szeletian" chalcedone and horn flint. These flakes may be connected with those microlithic epipalaeolithic groups which can be found in the same stratigraphical position in Petényi Cave and in the upper layers of Peskő Cave. According to its archaeological material the layer between 0 and 90 cms represents probably a period from our ages to Bronze Age layer or Neolithic one (Blockll 4. ["Neolithic"] level). It is highly possible that sediments between 140 and 180 cms (Block III 140-160, 160-180 cms) represent Neolithic while those between 180 and 220 cms (Block III 180-220, 200- 220 cms) can be identified with Mesolithie. A preliminary report on the vertebrate fauna of Rejtek I. Rock Shelter was published by JÁNOSSY in 1962 and detailed investigations on the charcoal-remains were made by STIEBER (1969). In the present faunistical analysis molluscs are determined by KROLOPP, birds by JÁNOSSY and other vertebrate animals by KORDOS. The layers and sporadic finds contain the following species (The mark-system is the same as applied in thé list of Petényi Cave) (see Table IL, p. 18—23):
