Flint tools from the Stone Age in the Chełmno Land. Traseological study - summary (original) (raw)

2010, Narzędzia krzemienne w epoce kamie-nia na ziemi chełmińskiej. Studium traseologiczne

This is an English summary of the book under the title Narzędzia krzemienne w epoce kamienia na ziemi chełmińskiej. Studium traseologiczne which was published in 2010 by UMK University Press Toruń Grzegorz Osipowicz, Flint tools from the Stone Age in the Chełmno Land. Traseological study The study presented below can be inscribed into traseological research stream of flint inventory originating from the Stone Age. Its main purpose is multi-faceted functional analysis of products obtained in 31 archaeological sites, majority of which (29) are located in the area of Pojezierze Chełmińsko-Dobrzyńskiego (Chełmno-Dobrzyń Lake District), the territory of historic Chełmno Land, two of them are situated in the West of the Vistula River within Toruń-Eberswalde ancient River Bed and in the Lower Vistula Valley, (fig. 14). Chronological range of his paper is closed in the period between late Dryas and the Atlantic period and refers to three stages of human prehistory: the Late Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Early and Middle Neolithic eras. The described Late Paleolithic sites are connected with Swiderian culture, Mesolithic ones belong to various cultures (Sąsieczno, site 4, Toruń, site 247 -Komornickie collections; Lubicz sites 12, 13, 18so called Chojnicko-Pieńkowskie collections). Remarks concerning Neolithic era and its connections with earlier periods are based on flint material described by Jolanta Małecka-Kukawka (2001). Collections of two cultures' siteslinear pottery and funnel beaker -were taken into account. The paper consists of five chapters. First characterizes trasological method, secondpresents the results of archaeological experiments carried out. It also contains brief characteristics of usage traces registered on particular types of tools. Chapter three is a catalogue of archaeological sources describing flint material subjected to analysis reflecting its origin, chronology and cultural adherence. Last two chapters are of analytic character, first is devoted to principal problems resulting directly from microscope analysis of prehistoric tools, i.e. ways of manufacturing them and the rules of implementing flint tools as well as techniques of raw material processing in various cultures and chronological periods. Part of chapter 5 (5.1.-5.4.) touches technological and typological problems, puts questions concerning methods of flint material usage, morphological features common and separate for those tools and the modes of using various flint forms. Subsection 5.5. refers to analysis of sites' functional profile, variety