“…In the Bükk Mountains, recent attempts to clarify the age estimates and cultural successions of the famous Szeleta, Istállós-kő, and Pes-kő caves have highlighted a scarcity of diagnostic artifacts, a poor understanding of stratigraphies, and difficulties in producing meaningful numerical chronologies (Bánesz 1989;Davies and Hedges 2008;Hauck et al 2016;Lengyel and Mester 2008;Markó 2015;Patou-Mathis et al 2016). In the surrounding landscape, open-air sites are known in and around the North Hungarian Range but are mostly unstratified, and secure radiometric ages are still unknown (Dobosi 1995(Dobosi , 2013Kozłowski et al 2009;Kozłowski et al 2012;Lengyel et al 2006;Markó et al 2002). In nearby northwestern Romania (c. 175 km southeast), reexaminations of the sites of Boinești, Bușag, Călinești, and Remetea Șomoș I & II suggest that, while there may be Aurignacian artifacts in the assemblages (Anghelinu and Niţă 2014;Dobrescu 2008), they have been reworked with Mousterian and Gravettian elements and therefore cannot be confidently separated and dated (Tuffreau et al 2013).…”