Laszlo Banesz

* Szilice, January 22, 1932 – † Nitra, January 11, 2000 / archaeologist ; ; He lost his father when he was 11 months old, and moved to Rožňava with his widowed mother, where he completed his elementary and secondary education. He graduated in 1951, then studied archaeology at the Comenius University in Bratislava between 1951 and 1956. He also studied for a year at the Charles University in Prague. He was a member of the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra. His field of expertise is Paleolithic archaeology, and he excavated primarily in eastern Slovak localities (Szilice, Abaújszina, Bárca, Kenyhec, Lándzsásötfalu, Tiba, etc.). From 1968 he was a member of the Instituto di Paleontologia Umana in Rome, from 1970 of the National Geographic Society and from 1976 he was the president of the 10th commission of the International Prehistoric and Protohistoric Union. He published his studies mostly in Slovak, English and German. ; ; His main works: ; Príspevok k poznaniu aurignacienu na východnom Slovensku, 1956, ; Dejiny Prešova I/2., 1965, ; Barca bei Košice – Paläolitische Fundstelle, 1968, ; Archeologický překsmům v povodí Sikenice ; (with Gábor Nevizánszky), 1985, ; Mittelpaläolitische kleinförmige Industrie aus den Travertinfundstellen der Zips, 1990, ; Sociohistorical and Palaeo-ecological Considerations of Aurignacian in Europe and Near East, 1999.