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Lithic raw materials of chipped and polished artefacts and methods of their determination

Authors

PŘICHYSTAL Antonín

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference First international symposium and course "Learning and Teaching Archaeometry", CEEPUS project BG-057
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Field Geology and mineralogy
Keywords chipped and polished artefacts - lithic raw materials - methods of determination
Description The author divided raw materials for chipped artefacts in central Europe into five groups (silicites, silica minerals, natural glasses, clastic silica rocks, others)and described various methods for their determination. The polished lithic artefacts were produced from a wide spectrum of metamorphic,igneous and sedimentary rocks (metabasites - greenschists, amphibolite, jadeitite, nephrite, serpentinites, basalts, andesites, sandstones, graywackes, arcoses, marbles). Study of thin section, x-ray diffraction, determination of trace elements and REE, analyses of rock-forming minerals using microprobe have been used for identification of the raw materials.
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