Szeletian or not Szeletian. Bifacial industries from three open-air Middle Palaeolithic sites from the Cserhát Mountains (Northern Hungary)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19686299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krisztián Zandler (0000-0003-2720-0371, corresponding author), András Markó (0000-0002-7556-0091), Attila Péntek (0000-0003-3471-897X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | Suppl |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 31-47 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Študijné zvesti Archeologického ústavu SAV (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0560-2793 |
| Publisher | Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31577/szausav.2021.suppl.2.3 |
| OpenAlex | W4200423098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
During the last 15 years, three Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites were excavated in the Cserhát Mountains (Northern Hungary), lying at the northern periphery of the Great Hungarian Plain.The context was similar at each locality: the lithics were excavated from loess-like reddish or yellowish sediment from a depth of 50 -100 cm beneath of the recent surface level.Bifacially worked leaf-shaped points and knives associated with sidescrapers and endscrapers made on flakes were found at all sites but in different ratio.For the time being, the chronology of the assemblages is not clear enough, but the typological and technological attributes of the assemblages show few if any Upper Palaeolithic traits.In the present paper, the characteristics of the bifacially manufactured and leaf-shaped implements from the sites will be compared with an emphasis on their raw material types. INT RODUCTIONThe Szeleta Cave, the first excavated Palaeolithic site in Hungary is located in the Bükk Mountains (Fig. 1: 1), North-Eastern Hungary, at 345 m a.s.l. and 100 m relative height.The first field works were carried out by the geologist O. Kadić and the anthropologist J. Hillebrand between 1906 and 1913 (Kadić 1915).The cave became famous very quickly because of the presence of the finely elaborated leaf-shaped points made of metarhyolite (earlier: glassy quartz porphyry, felsitic porphyry, metaquartzite or simply: Szeleta raw material), radiolarite and limnic silicite.The excavated industries were originally classified as belonging to the Solutrean (Hillebrand 1935; Kadić 1915; 1934).Later F. Prošek defined the assemblages of the open-air and cave sites characterized by bifacially worked leaf-shaped points from Slovakia as Szeletian (Prošek 1953).Since then, a series of small-scale excavations have been carried out in the cave by J. Nemeskéri
Archaeology · Cave · Geography · Geologist · Open air · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Geological Formations and Processes Exploration · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
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