A KÉSEI KÖZÉPSŐ PALEOLITIKUM CSONTIPARA A KÁRPÁT-MEDENCÉBEN
THE OSSEOUS INDUSTRY OF THE LATE MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN

Summary/Abstract: In this study we discussed three old-excavated assemblages, containing Jankovichian, i.e. Middle Palaeolithic type leaf-shaped tools on one hand and well made typical antler and ivory tools on the other. The Jankovich and the Bivak cave and the Pilisszántó II rockshelter (which yielded pseudo-artefacts and long bone fragments with cutmarks; Fig. 10.6–7 and Fig. 10.4–5) are lying in the NE part of the Transdanubia, the Pálffy cave (Dzeravá skála) in the Little Carpathians, Western Slovakia. The examinations of the lithic and osseous artefacts, deposited in the Palaeolithic collection of the Hungarian National Museum, and the bibliographical works focusing to the stratigraphical data yielded the following conclusions. The wedge shaped antler and ivory tools (Figs 6.2, 8.1, 9) and probably the ivory rod and lamellas (Figs 4, 5.1–3) from the Jankovich cave, finally the antler tools from the Pálffy (Dzeravá skála) cave (Fig. 1.2) can certainly be linked to the Middle Palaeolithic type leaf-shaped (Jankovichian) industry: the lithics and the osseous artefacts were excavated in one and the same level. The fragments of antler tools, found in the Bivak cave (Fig. 10.1–2) can most probably belong to the same circle.

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