Szeletian

The Szeleta Culture is the transitional archaeological culture between the Middle Paleolithic together with the Upper Palaeolithic, found in Austria, Moravia, northern Hungary, as well as southern Poland. it is dated 41,000 to 37,000 years before the presentation BP, and is named after Szeleta Cave in the Bükk Mountains, part of the North Hungarian Mountains.

It was preceded by the Bohunician 48,000–40,000 BP, and is roughly modern with the Aurignacian 43,000–26,000 BP in France, and the Uluzzian 45,000–37,000 BP in Italy. It was succeeded by the Gravettian 33,000–21,000 BP.

The initial excavation of the Szeletian cave was carried out from 1906 to 1913 by Ottocar Kadić. The belief of a distinctive Szeletian culture was advocated by the Czechoslovak archaeologist František Prošek 1922–1958.

Neanderthals or advanced humans

It has been called the near original and also the most aboriginal Upper Palaeolithic culture in Central Europe. The findings are often interpreted in terms of the contemporaneity of Neandertal and modern man, "as the product of acculturation at the boundary of Middle and Upper Paleolithic." However, the absence of human keeps makes it impossible to qualities the culture to Neanderthals or modern humans.