List of Illustrations

Prehistoric industrial district in the Bakony Mts.

• Geological time scale
• Jurassic scenery (Z. Burian)
• Geological map of Hungary with the location of prehistoric flint mines
• Current position of the Jurassic synclinals
• Position of the continents in the Jurassic period
• Position of the continents in the Jurassic period relative to the poles
• Different Radiolaria species
• Radiolarite - thin section micrograph

• Flint mines in Europe
• Mine tipes after J. Weisgerber
  • 1-2. Surface collecting and shallow pits
  • 3. Deep pits
  • 4. Deep, wide pit with steps
  • 5. Shaft
  • 6. Shaft with cross-form galleries
  • 7. Star-form galleries
  • 8. Deep shaft
  • 9. Complicated system of shafts and galleries
• Environs of the Tűzköveshegy with the location of the excavation and the range of testpits
• Excavations in 1993-1994 with the location of the mining pits
• Excavations on the Tűzköveshegy, 1983-1994
• 3D model of the Tűzköveshegy with the location of the excavation and the range of testpits
• Photos of the excavations - great pit
• Photos of the excavations - trench 4, 5
• Photos of the excavations - great pit
• Photos of the excavations - great pit step-like southern part
• Photos of the excavations - rounded, cauldron-like pits in section
• Northern slope of the Tűzköveshegy overlooking the main valley
• great pit (trench 1, 3)
• Hammerstone depot along the 7/2 testpit, layer 1.
• Hammerstone depot along the 7/2 testpit, layer 2.
• Range of testpits along the workshop area (1993)
• Distribution of workshop material from the Tűzköveshegy mines
• raw material block exploited...
• with traces of wedges used for exploitation
• globular precore
• radiolarite block and hammerstones
• workshop debris, flakes
• details from the hammerstone depot
• Sümeg-Mogyorósdomb, section of a mining pit
• Tools of mining made of antler, Sümeg

• The orientation and description of stone tools
• Elements of description
• Forms of cores (nuclei)
• discoid core and blade core
• discoid with possible sequence of flaking blade core used from alternate directions
• Levallois core
• Levallois type blade core
• Blade cores
• Conical blade core and blade cores flaked from several directions
• types of retouch
• position of the retouch compared to the cutting edge
• position of the retouch on the artifact
• prehistoric stone artifact types after L. Vértes
• prehistoric stone artifact types after L. Vértes
• waste of the production of a core
• core and blanks
• the blanks were detached from the core by a hard percussion tool (hammerstone) from the block till the core
• slow
• fast
• from the core, blanks and waste ...
• step by step ...
• the original block can be refitted from core to block
• slow
• fast

• Szentgál-Füzi-kút; areal distribution of lithic finds in the excavation units
• Experimental archaeology: 1. this flake was used to cut antler
• 3. this flake was used for wood-carving
• Prehistoric settlements around the Tűzköveshegy

• location of archaeological sites with lithic material analysed
• supply zone of individual raw material provinces
• supply zone and area of regular exterior contact
• distribution of Transdanubian radiolarites on archaeological sites, in percentage of the total number of lithics
• The depot comprised 33 blades from 3 cores: this is core 1
• core 2
• core 3
• a large part of the material could be refitted: core 1
• core 1, reverse
• According to use-wear studies by microscope,
• the blades of the depot were in use

• Archaeological time scale
• Neolithic diet
• Prehistoric settlements around the Tűzköveshegy
• The Szentgál-Füzikúti settlement is located along the road leading towards Urkút .
• on a steep hillside below the forest
• Szentgál-Füzikút. Details of the site plan
• Szentgál-Füzikút. Burnt ruins of a house
• Szentgál-Füzikút. Refuse pit during the excavation
• Szentgál-Füzikút. Excavation in progress
• Szentgál-Füzikút. Cremation grave
• Bones of an elderly woman from a ditch
• Plant fossils and food remains from Neolithic settlements
• Szentgál-Füzikút: blades from the settlement
• Szentgál-Füzikút: retouched artifacts from the settlement
• Szentgál-Füzikút: blade cores from the settlement
• Production of polished stone tools
• Model of a Neolithic house
• Neolithic house types - ground plan and archaeological reconstructions
• The auroch formed part of the Neolithic wild fauna

• Treshing sledge with silex inlays. Turkey, Anatolia (J. Weiner).
• Tools of a gunflint workshop
• Title of the ordeal by Joseph II. for the promotion of prospecting for flint mines
• Structure of a gun with gunflint
• Gunflint series from the material of the Museum

• Cave paintings of prehistoric man from a newly discovered cave, brought to you by modern technology and the INTERNET
• Archaeological finds are deposited, after excavations in the museum stores