The Demjén-Szőlő-hegy III Early Upper Palaeolithic Site
Sándor Béres†, Dalma Kerekes*
* Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 4/B Múzeum Krt., Budapest, 1088 Hungary; E-mail: kerekesdalma0214@gmail.com; ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3380-890X
Cite as: Béres, S., & Kerekes, D. (2023). The Demjén-Szőlő-hegy III Early Upper Palaeolithic Site. In A. Király (Ed.), From tea leaves to leaf-shaped tools. Studies in honour of Zsolt Mester on his sixtieth birthday (pp. 65–78). Lithic Research Roundtable & Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. https://doi.org/10.23898/litikumsi02a03
Abstract: Szőlő-hegy is located in Northeastern Hungary in the vicinity of Demjén. The archaeological potential of the plateau has been discovered by Viola Dobosi in 1975. However, the Szőlő-hegy III site was only identified during a field survey in 2017.
The main goal of the article is to determine the period and the cultural attribution of the finds by comparing the assemblage with similar archaeological materials. Therefore, a comprehensive technological and typological analysis was carried out. According to the comparison with the Szőlő-hegy I and II sites, Szőlő-hegy III is classified as Aurignacian. The archaeological material contains tool types characteristic of Early and Typical Aurignacian, but their proportion, technology, and closest analogies might leave the possibility open to an Early Aurignacian origin.
Keywords: Aurignacian, Raw material economy, Technology, Typology
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