Podlesie, Site 6 – the First Obsidian Inventory of the Linear Pottery Culture Communities from the Połaniec Basin

Szeliga, Marcin; Przeździecki, Michał; Grabarek, Artur

doi:10.23858/apa57.2019.014

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“…Obsidian was subject to conveyance and long-distance distribution since Palaeolithic times (see Moutsiou 2014; and, during the Neolithic, these activities intensified. Volcanic glass artifacts are present in inventories connected with Linear Pottery culture sites (especially in the Želiezovce group), in western Slovakia, in southern Poland, and in ALPC assemblages in eastern Slovakia and Hungary (Kulczycka and Kozłowski 1960;Godłowska 1982;Milisauskas 1986;Šiška 1998;Grygiel 2004;Kaczanowska and Godłowska 2009;Szeliga 2009;Tunia 2016;Biró 2018;Kaminská 2018;Riebe 2019;Szeliga et al 2019a;2019b). Even higher demand for obsidian seems to have existed during the Late Neolithic (following the decline of the Bükk culture, during the beginning of the Lengyel culture), when raw material exchange and conveyance moved semi-products and finished products of obsidian as far as the central Danube region (Šiška 1989, 77), Czechia (Burgert 2015;Burgert et al 2016;2017), Poland, and the Polish Lowlands (Więckowska 1971;Kabaciński 2010;Wilczyński 2016).…”

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Obsidian Source Use Within the Alföld Linear Pottery culture in Slovakia

Werra

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Nowak

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This paper reports the results of non-destructive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis of 186 obsidian artifacts from eight archaeological sites attributable to the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600-4900 cal BC). This is the largest instrument-based study yet conducted and reported for Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (ALPC) artifacts from Slovakia, where ALPC chipped lithic assemblages are almost entirely composed of obsidian items. Results show that all obsidian artifacts analyzed were manufactured exclusively from a volcanic glass of the Carpathian 1 chemical type, the source of which has been localised in Slovakia. This chemical variety of obsidian appears to have been the most important volcanic glass used by prehistoric communities in East-Central Europe during the Neolithic.

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Obsidian Source Use Within the Alföld Linear Pottery culture in Slovakia

Werra

Hughes²,

Nowak

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“…zabytkach krzemiennych. Niezwykle interesująca kolekcja przedmiotów z obsydianu została szczegółowo scharakteryzowana w odrębnym artykule (Szeliga, Przeździecki, Grabarek, 2019). Interesująca nas grupa artefaktów stanowi drugą pod względem liczebności kategorię znalezisk ruchomych, odkrytych w ramach dotychczasowych badań.…”

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Między Wschodem a Zachodem. Inwentarz krzemienny z osady ludności kultury ceramiki wstęgowej rytej na stanowisku Podlesie 6, woj. świętokrzyskie

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Paper presents results of analysis of the assemblage of flint artefacts from the settlement of Linear Pottery culture (LBK) at the site no. 6 in Podlesie, Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. Importance of the site is primarily by its location: on the border of two geographical regions, two geological conditions, two settlement eccentrics of the LBK and two provinces of lithic raw materials. Within the flint assemblage we can distinguish two main classes of lithical artefacts: an internally cohesive collection of 104 obsidian products and a collection of 2069 artefacts made of at least five different types of flint. In the group of siliceous rocks, the most numerous is the Jurassic flint from Cracow area – 53%. Second place in the inventory is occupied by the Światchowski flint, which share reaches the level of 19%. Only slightly smaller are amounts of chocolate flint – 15%.

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