Flints in glacigenic sediments of the Chełm Hills, Eastern Poland. Prehistory and geology

• Authors: Jerzy Libera , Radosław Dobrowolski , Marcin Szeliga , Tadeusz Wiśniewski

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Krzemienie w osadach glacigenicznych Pagórów Chełmskich: prahistoria — geologia

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

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Chełm Hills is an area situated on the northern periphery of the Lublin Upland in the eastern part of Poland. It is a mesoregion covering about 722 square kilometres. Monadnocks and hillocks reaching the relative altitudes up to 300 metres above sea level, which are towering above the sandy of peaty plains are characteristic to this area. They are built of Cretaceous formations covered with layers of the Tertiary sandstones of varying thickness. Within them lies the Cretaceous flint raw material, which macroscopically is often similar to siliceous rocks occurring in the neighbouring areas of Volhynia, Volhynian Polesie and Podlasie. Current verification work has revealed mostly Prehistoric sites, documenting settlement from the Middle Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age. Among these, the most numerous group is constituted by Late Palaeolithic and Early Bronze Age materials. The Late Palaeolithic sources were recorded most of all in the form of remnants of workshops documented by the presence of individual pre-cores, more numerous cores and accompanying débitage.

Keywords

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erratic flints; Rejowiec flint; Chełm Hills; eastern Poland

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 66
• Pages: 57-82

Dates

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2014

Contributors

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Jerzy Libera

• Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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Radosław Dobrowolski

• Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, al. Kraśnicka 2cd, 20-718 Lublin, Poland

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Marcin Szeliga

• Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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Tadeusz Wiśniewski

• Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland