Praehistoria 4-5

The 12 articles, 10 in English and 2 in French, published in the volume mainly yield information on new discoveries. Four of them have been made in Hungary. L. Kordos carried out palaeontological investigations at the Middle Pleistocene sites of Castle Hill, Budapest, contemporary to the Vértessz?l?s site. Polish-Hungarian excavations uncovered an Upper Palaeolithic settlement at Andornaktálya, near Eger, which is published in archaeological (J. K. Kozlowski and Zs. Mester), geomorphological (A. Hevesi and A. Ringer), and sedimentological-micromorphological studies (A. Budek and T. Kalicki). A. Markó and A. Péntek present the surface collection of a Middle Palaeolithic site in North Hungary which is rendered very interesting by its large procurement area of raw materials, including Slovakian radiolarite and obsidian, Jurassic Cracow flint of South Polish origin. A. Ringer introduces the new excavations of a flint mine site at Miskolc, Northeastern Hungary. Other new discoveries are presented from the Upper Palaeolithic of south-eastern Poland (M. Pawlowska et al.) and of Transcarpathian Ukraine (V. I. Usik et al.), as well as from the Mesolithic of Pakistan (P. Biagi). P.-Y. Demars publishes an interesting palaeogeographical study on the distribution of large herbivores on a European scale at the end of the Ice Age. V. Csányis paper reconstructs the major factors in the evolution of human behaviour by ethological data. I. Vörös gives a complete revision of the stratigraphy and palaeontological material of Istállósko Cave, one of the Upper Palaeolithic key sites of the Buekk Mountains in northern Hungary.