A Middle Palaeolithic workshop at Andornaktálya-Marinka site (Northeast Hungary)

Kerekes, Dalma and Cserpák, Ferenc and Mester, Zsolt (2024) A Middle Palaeolithic workshop at Andornaktálya-Marinka site (Northeast Hungary). ARCHAEOLOGIAI ÉRTESÍTŐ, 149 (1). pp. 83-103. ISSN 0003-8032

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Abstract

Although many Palaeolithic open-air sites are known on the foothills of the Bükk Mountains near Eger, Andornaktálya-Marinka was only discovered in 2014 thanks to new vine plantations on a hilltop. It was prospected regularly until 2019, and a test excavation was carried out in 2018. The archaeological material consists of a few undiagnostic prehistoric ceramic sherds and daub fragments, and 1706 stone artefacts. Except two fragments of polished axes, the lithic assemblage contains knapped stones. The paper presents the analysis of the lithic assemblage. This demonstrates the characteristics of an ‘older’ flake industry using almost exclusively local and regional raw materials, and those of a ‘younger’ blade industry working with long-distance ‘northern’ flints. The ‘older’ can be attributed to the Middle Palaeolithic Bábonyian, while the ‘younger’ should be related to Early Upper Palaeolithic Aurignacian or even to a Late Neolithic or Copper Age occupation.

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