Lithic raw materials of chipped and polished artefacts and methods of their determination
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | First international symposium and course "Learning and Teaching Archaeometry", CEEPUS project BG-057 |
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| 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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