Long distance distribution of raw materials for chipped stone artifacts in the Early and Middle Neolithic Central Europe (Moravia and Eastern Austria) in the 6th and 5th millennium BC

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna and Gerhard TRNKA. Long distance distribution of raw materials for chipped stone artifacts in the Early and Middle Neolithic Central Europe (Moravia and Eastern Austria) in the 6th and 5th millennium BC. In Kerig, Tim; Shennan, Stephen. Connecting Networks. Characterising Contact by Measuring Lithic Exchange in the European Neolithic. I. vyd. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2015, p. 8-15. Archaeopress Archaeology. ISBN 978-1-78491-141-6.

Basic information

• Original name: Long distance distribution of raw materials for chipped stone artifacts in the Early and Middle Neolithic Central Europe (Moravia and Eastern Austria) in the 6th and 5th millennium BC
• Authors: MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Gerhard TRNKA (40 Austria).
• Edition: I. vyd. Oxford, Connecting Networks. Characterising Contact by Measuring Lithic Exchange in the European Neolithic, p. 8-15, 8 pp. Archaeopress Archaeology, 2015.
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 60102 Archaeology
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/15:00086103
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-1-78491-141-6
• Keywords in English: Neolithic; raw material; distribution; intercultural contacts; chipped stone artefacts; central Europe; Moravia; Lower Austria
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Moravia and Lower Austria are abundant in local raw materials for the manufacture of the chipped stone industry, which have been utilised with varied intensity during the Neolithic Period. Some of them were distributed over dozens of kilometres, even when other raw material suitable for chipping was available in the vicinity of the settlement. On the one hand we can find raw materials and blanks, whose supplied amount was sufficient to meet the economic needs of the Neolithic communities. Among the most important ones are the Krumlovský les cherts from southwest Moravia, which have supplied the whole of South Moravia over virtually the entire Neolithic, and Lower Austria during the Middle Neolithic. On the other hand, raw materials imported from other, geographically distant, regions may have also fulfilled an important economic function. In the Early Neolithic, Transdanubian radiolarites (north-west Hungary) were favoured at the expense of local sources in Lower Austria, and the Krakow Jurassic silicites were preferred in North Moravia. Besides the aforesaid lithic raw materials we also can identify some others, whose role was negligible from an economic point of view. This latter group mainly includes raw materials imported from regions several hundreds of kilometres away, which can provide significant evidence for intercultural contacts and their dynamics in the eastern part of Central Europe during the Early and Middle Neolithic.

Links

• MUNI/A/1130/2014, interní kód MU: Name: Archeologická terénní prospekce, exkavace, dokumentace a muzejní prezentace IV

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A