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Flint inventories of Lublin-Volhynian culture burials from sites 1A and 2A in Strzyżów, Hrubieszów district, in light of the archaeological and traseological analysis

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Mączyński P., Zakościelna A.
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
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2017
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vol. 69
327-352
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Flint products are a regular element of the grave goods in Lublin-Volhynian culture (further L-VC), at the same they are attributes primarily of male burials. Some well-equipped burials of adult males are accompanied by numerous and diverse fl int inventories, discovered in various locations on the dead, including macroblades and dagger-blades made of Volhynian fl int, lying on the chest, interpreted as objects of prestige. So far, these products have very rarely been subjected to traseological analyzes. This article provides the results of functional analyzes of fl int inventories of several graves of the L-VC classical phase, from sites IA and 2A in Strzyżów, Hrubieszów district.
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Core-shaped forms: endscrapers, burins, cores? Analysis of Aurignacian artefacts from the Kraków, Spadzista site

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Nowak A., Wolski D.
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
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2015
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vol. 67
113-138
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Core-shaped forms are one of the most distinctive kinds of artefacts identified in Aurignacian assemblages. Classification of such pieces frequently causes difficulties, and the boundaries between certain types seem to be fluid and intuitive. The question whether to categorise those artefacts as tools or as cores is another unresolved issue. This leads to conflicting interpretations of morphologically and technologically identical lithics. The present paper investigates these topics, using the assemblage of core-shaped forms from the group of sites in Spadzista Street in Kraków as an example. The authors propose a standardised examination method, without dividing the artefacts into typological categories, tools or cores. Such an approach, combined with microwear analysis of the materials, confirms the hypothesis that the forms may have been used both as tools and as cores, and that their use was not always the same, but depended on the specific needs of their users/makers
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O możliwościach i ograniczeniach metody traseologicznej w badaniach masowych materiałów archeologicznych z kopalń krzemienia

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Małecka-Kukawka J., Werra D.
Archeologia Polski
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2011
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vol. 56
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issue 1-2
135-164
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Selected flint specimens from the mine in Sąspów, Kraków district, have been used to demonstrate the usefulness of the method for a currently implemented program of research on the material from the Wierzbica “Zele” mine, Radom district. This chocolate flint mine, excavated in the 1980s, was exploited by the Mierzanowicka and Lusatian cultures. Already it has been shown that the flint knives of the “Zele” type testify to the high skills of the Late Bronze Age flint knappers. Traseological analyses can supply proof of the use of flint blades and flakes as knives for repetitive actions like cutting animal hides, meat and other organic materials, but they can be helpless in demonstrating the use of them for individual or sporadic ritual procedures. The analysis concerned 91 specimens from the excavations in 1962 in Sąspów, distinguished as mining tools based on morphological traits. Microscopic analysis by J. Małecka -Kukawka has demonstrated evident traces of wear on only 11 of these specimens, suggesting that a large part of the examined specimens were “pseudo-tools”. Taking into consideration archaeological features and structures found in the area of the mines, the possibility that ancient pseudo-retouching can occur on flint specimens originating from the mining fields is incomparably higher than on specimens from other. It is therefore fully justified to treat various fragmentary retouches on blade and flake specimens from mines with the utmost caution. The material from Sąspów demonstrates that only the coupling of morphological characteristics with the results of microwear analyses can allow a given specimen to be attributed to the tools group. Applying the method to the examination of selected specimens from the Wierzbica “Zele” mine should verify these conclusions.
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