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Mesolithische Traditionen und der Ursprung der Linearbandkeramik

Title in English Mesolithic traditions and the origin of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK)
Authors

MATEICIUCOVÁ Inna

Year of publication 2003
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Archäologische Informationen
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
Keywords Mesolithic-Neolithic transition - Neolithisation of psyche - chipped stone industry - regular blade production - distribution of stone raw material - trapezes - borers/perforators - exchange of partners
Description Chipped stone tools made by both Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic farmers, play a significant role in discussions about the beginning of the Neolithic in Central Europe (LBK culture). In this paper I compare the technology of blade production, the distribution of raw stone sources and the occurrence of so-called culturally specific tool types (trapezes, borers and retouched blades) of the chipped stone industries of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic sites in Central Europe and Balkans. I suggest indigenous development of the LBK culture in the region of Transdanubia. I would like to emphasize the psychological implications on Neolithisation. I suggest long before the physical acceptance of the Neolithic, some changes occurred at the psychic level. First, there was a Neolithisation of the hunter-gatherer soul (psyche), followed by Neolithisation at the material level. On the end of this paper I try to explain the rapid dispersion of the Early LBK culture throughout Central Europe.
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