Vértesszőlős is a village located in the department of Komárom-Esztergom, with an about sixty kilometers in the North-West of Budapest, in Hungary. In 2004, it counted a population of 2775 inhabitants for a surface of 17,12 km ².

Prehistoric site

The village gave its name has an archaeological site immense, excavated of 1963 to 1968 pennies the direction of Lazlo Vertes. Discovered at the time of the exploitation of a career of Travertine S, it delivered a lithic Industrie Paléolithique inferior carried out at the expense of small rollers of Quartzite and Silex. Industry comprises small cut rollers interpreted like tools as well as Racloir S and improved glares ^, .

The archaeological vestiges are included in loess like sands subjacent with the travertines gone back to 350.000 years BP by the method of the uranium-thorium. The archaeological levels rest on other sand levels gone back to 700.000 years BP by the method of thermoluminescence.

The site delivered two teeth déciduales and a occipital Os of adult initially allotted to Homo erectus . The progressive characters observed on the occipital one resulted in seeing there a form of transition between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens .

The site is also known to have delivered the hearths among oldest known to date.

A museum of outdoor open to the visit was arranged on the site.

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