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Contribution to the distribution of Jizerské hory metabasites in the period of Linear Pottery culture

Authors

JANÁK Vratislav PŘICHYSTAL Antonín GADAS Petr

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Anthropologie: international journal of human diversity and evolution
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2344
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.26720/anthro.21.10.22.1
Keywords Linear Pottery culture; Polished tools; Metabasites; Bohemian-Moravian Borderlands; Upper Odra river basin; Prehistoric quarries; Jizerské hory Mts.
Description Metabasites were absolutely prevalent raw materials for polished stone tools connected with the Linear Pottery culture (Linearbandkeramik, LBK) in Central Europe. Besides the key source of amphibole-rich metabasites in the Jizerské hory Mts. we already know a few other natural outcrops with their prehistoric using in the Bohemian Massif and some other can be supposed. In the article we have compared LBK polished tools from two different areas in the Czech Republic: the Bohemian-Moravian borderlands and Upper Odra River basin. In spite of natural occurrences of metabasites near the both areas, all studied polished tools have been made of the amphibole-rich metabasites from Jizerské hory Mts. It accentuates importance of the unique Neolithic mining field in the Jizerské hory Mts.

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