Preliminary results of the latest excavations at the Kőlyuk I, Parasznya

Abstract

The first decades of Hungarian research on prehistory were characterised primarily by cave excavations; these archaeological-palaeontological investigations became less frequent after World War II. Since research had been rather intensive until that time, the lack of the remaining upper cave layers and the documentations incomplete to varying degrees made it rather difficult for future generations to “revisit” earlier chapters of the sites’ histories. The cave named Kőlyuk I. is located in the northern Bükk Mountains, near Parasznya. One of its caverns, its size comparable to other large prehistoric caves, provides an excellent opportunity (potentially one of the final few) to methodically unravel history from the present-day surface level.