Publication details
Forerunners of the New Epoch in Lithic Chipped Industries of the Moravian Young Eneolithic
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Musaica archaeologica |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Moravia and Czech Silesia; East part of the Czech Republic; Young Eneolithic; lithic chipped industry |
| Description | Lithic chipped industries of the Young Eneolithic in Moravia are presented within three aspects – raw material, chipping technique and tool typology, separately for each analyzed cultures – the Jevišovice, Bošáca and the Globular Amphora (the latter of the northern origin, alien in the Moravian milieu). Stone materials of that period can be utilized as the source of complementary information on cultural transformations in Moravia towards the end of the Stone Age, leading to the formation of the Bronze Age civilization. On observes that assemblages of the local cultures (Jevišovice, Bošáca) related to the Carpathian milieu, reveal the earliest elements which would later became emblematic in the so-called Terminal Lithic Industries, e.g. the preference of raw materials from the nearby sources, high share of the functional tools, the presence of segments, etc. These observations underline the role of the Moravian territories in transmuting civilization ideas in that part of Europe. |