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Provenience křišťálových artefaktů z aurignacké stanice Nová Dědina u Kroměříže na základě studia fluidních inkluzí
| Title in English | Provenance of rock crystal artefacts from the Nová Dědina Aurignacian site near Kroměříž based on investigation of fluid inclusions |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Přehled výzkumů |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Nová Dědina; central Moravia; Aurignacian; rock crystal artefacts; provenance; fluid inclusions |
| Description | The Nová Dědina Palaeolithic (Aurignacian) site (near Kroměříž, southeast Moravia) is one of numerous archaeological sites in Central Europe on which rock crystal (pure quartz) artefacts have been found. This site is more important among the others from the point of view of numerous artefacts discovered – several hundreds of rock crystal chips have been found. A debate on provenance of the material has been running for already many years. There are areas at the centre of discussion as the West-Moravian (areas between Žďár nad Sázavou and Velké Meziříčí, further at the vicinity of Brtnice) or the Alpine region as a possible source of material. Rock crystal artefacts have been previously discovered within areas of natural sources, e.g. Bobrůvka, Krásněves, Sklené nad Oslavou. Recently extremely interesting the Palaeolithic site Mohelno-Plevovce has been discovered. The most of several hundreds of chips are made from rock crystal and are considered to come from surrounding natural sources. Investigation of fluid inclusions (typology, microthermometry) and Raman spectrometry as principal and sensitive methods to reveal the genetic features of rock crystals were applied on material from Nová Dědina. A comparative material (quartz, rock crystals) were put together from many natural localities and processed by the same methodological way. The obtained results evidently indicate that rock crystals from pegmatite rocks from the Bory-Cyrilov area contain the same types of fluid inclusions (with an aqueous solution, CO2 and solid phases – halite, calcite) and the fluid properties as well as yielded rock crystal artefacts from Nová Dědina. Hence this area near Bory-Cyrilov in West Moravia could be considered as the source for artefacts found at the Nová Dědina Aurignacian site. |