Szeletian

[1] It is dated to 44,000 to 40,000 years ago, a period when both Neanderthals and modern humans were present in Europe.

[3] The idea of a distinctive Szeletian culture was advocated by the Czechoslovak archaeologist František Prošek (1922–1958).

[4] It has been called the most original and also the most aboriginal Upper Palaeolithic culture in Central Europe.

[5] The findings are often interpreted in terms of the contemporaneity of Neanderthal and modern man, "as the product of acculturation at the boundary of Middle and Upper Paleolithic.

[4] In addition to the Szeletian cave in Hungary, assemblages have been found in Dzierzyslaw and Lubotyń (Poland),[7] at Čertova Pec in Slovakia, and at Pod Hradem (Moravia).