Hidasnémeti-Borház-dűlő Gravettien lelőhely kőpengéinek morfometriai elemzése (Morphometric analysis of blades from Hidasnémeti-Borház-dűlő Gravettian site)
Ferenc Eleki1, Attila Péntek2
1 Független kutató / Independent researcher
2 Független kutató / Independent researcher, 2143 Kistarcsa, Késmárki u. 27.
Cite as Eleki, F. & Péntek, A. (2016). Hidasnémeti-Borház-dűlő Gravettien lelőhely kőpengéinek morfometriai elemzése (Morphometric analysis of blades from Hidasnémeti-Borház-dűlő Gravettian site). Litikum – Journal of the Lithic Research Roundtable, 4, pp. 33–48. https://doi.org/10.23898/litikuma0017
Abstract. Morphometric analysis of blades from Hidasnémeti-Borház-dűlő Gravettian site. The excavation of Hidasnémeti-Borház dűlő Upper Palaeolithic site was conducted by Katalin Simán between 1983 and 1985. Based on the shouldered points in the excavated lithic assemblage, she placed the site to a well limited time horizon of the Gravettian technocomplex. Ferenc Eleki conducted a technological analyis on the assemblage in his unpublished MA thesis (Eleki 2010). With this technological approach, relationship of the two observed culture bearing layer became possible in novel ways. The presence of numerous „breakages” on blades and bladelets also offered an opportunity for a more detailed metrical analysis. This kind of analysis didn’t took place so far, and only the thoroughness of the excavation could make possible to perform such studies. The one and only aim of this paper is the extension of the mathematical-statistical investigations. We would like to deal with the possible function of the site or the archaeological evaluation of the lithic assemblage only tangential. However, we didn’t consider the completion of the mathematical-statistical investigations autotelic, we try to give an archaeological interpretation of the results, even if this is may be not more than a hypotetical notion.
Keywords: Gravettian, Upper Palaeolithic, mathematical statistics, technology, breakages, Hidasnémeti
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