Publication details
Česká naleziště surovin na výrobu kamenných štípaných artefaktů v pravěku
| Title in English | Bohemian sources of raw materials for production of lithic chipped artefacts in prehistoric times |
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Památky archeologické |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | chipped artefacts; lithic raw materials; Bohemian sources |
| Description | The paper brings a survey of Bohemian lithic raw materials being already found among chipped artefacts or their presence can be seriously supposed. The raw materials are divided into five groups: silicites, minerals of SiO2, natural glasses, clastic siliceous rocks and other lithics.In spite of low-quality silicite occurrences in Bohemia, some of them (erratic flints, chert of the Bohemian Karst type, Permian chert, Cretaceous spongolite)played an important role locally. As is minerals of SiO2 concerned, it is necessary to mention rock-crystal, opal, plasma from southern Bohemia and jasper from the Kozákov Mt. in northern Bohemia. Local natural glasses (moldavites)were chipped only rarely. On the other hand, the west-Bohemian quartzites (types Skršín, Tušimice and Bečov) of the third group were largely used not only in the territory of Bohemia but besides it as well. The Bohemian spectrum of lithic raw materials is also interesting because of using porcellanites, silicified woods and acid subvolcanites. |