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Krzemień jurajski odmiany G - czterdzieści lat później / Jurassic flint, variety G - forty years later
| Title in English | Jurassic flint, variety G - forty years later |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Krzemień jurajski w pradziejach / Jurassic flint in prehistory |
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| Keywords | Jurassic silicite (flint); variety G; Kraków-Czestochowa Upland; utilization in prehistory |
| Description | The paper reviews the 40-year-long research on the so-called Jurassic flint- -variety G. This specific siliceous rock was first recognized in archaeological assemblages and described in the literature without reference to its natural sources. Its importance as a raw material became evident after the research of the Late Neolithic (Eneolithic) settlement complex at Bronocice, Pińczów district. Surface survey and excavations in 1980s and 1990s determined that artifacts of that rock, especially axes with quadrilateral section and precores for long blades, were being produced on a large scale in specialized workshops in the central part of the Cracow- Częstochowa Upland, mainly in the Krztynia River region. In 2003 there was discovered a probable mining place, located close to the workshop site at Huta Szklana, Zawiercie district. Extraction and processing places in that region were probably seasonally used by people from Bronocice and other sites linked with the Funnel Beaker-Baden horizon on the Lesser Poland Western loess areas. The authors propose a hypothetic model of relation between the settlement at Bronocice and the flint processing site at Huta Szklana. Lithic production, performed both at workshop and on the domestic site, was focused on axes and long blades. A substantial part of the production was intended to export, especially southwards to the milieu of the Baden culture. |