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Characterization and identification of siliceous rocks from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (Southern Poland) as potential raw materials / Alicja KOCHMAN // W: Lithic raw materials in prehistory : methods, practice and theory / eds. Michael Brandl, Maria Gurova ; Austrian Academy of Sciences. Austrian Archaeological Institute. Department of Prehistory & West Asian / Northeast African Archaeology. — Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, cop. 2025. — (Oriental and European Archaeology ; ISSN 2415-1688 ; vol. 33). — ISBN: 978-3-7001-9489-7. — S. 41–53. — Bibliogr. s. 49–53, Abstr.
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| ID BaDAP | 162060 |
|---|---|
| Data dodania do BaDAP | 2025-09-08 |
| Rok publikacji | 2025 |
| Typ publikacji | fragment książki |
| Otwarty dostęp |  |
| Czasopismo/seria | Oriental and European Archaeology |
Abstract
The Upper Jurassic sediments from the southern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (Southern Poland) have developed as carbonates and host a variety of siliceous rocks: chert concretions, bedded cherts and epigenetic siliceous rocks. Since the Middle Palaeolithic, siliceous rocks have been used by ancient communities as raw materials for manufacturing a variety of tools. Criteria applied to typological classifications of siliceous artefacts found at archaeological sites are subjective, ambiguous and unrelated to the geological context of the findings. Siliceous rocks originate from silicification of primary carbonate sediments; thus, their formation is closely related to the development of these sediments. Unfortunately, high variability of carbonate deposits precludes the assignment of particular rock samples to specific source outcrops. Consequently, neither similar macroscopic features nor even similar microfacies development of siliceous source rocks allow the researcher to identify unequivocally the origin of particular flint artefacts. However, detailed microfacies analysis of thin sections may eventually enable the researcher to find out an approximate position of a given microfacies type in the lithostratigraphic column of Upper Jurassic strata.
