Silicite ("flint") from Opole-Groszowice: Contribution to recognition of the raw materials used during prehistory in the Odra River valley

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Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/issue/viewe/166/239" target="_blank" >http://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/issue/viewe/166/239</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3009" target="_blank" >10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Silicite ("flint") from Opole-Groszowice: Contribution to recognition of the raw materials used during prehistory in the Odra River valley

Original language description

Until recently, all the erratic flints found at the Stone Age sites in the upper part of the Odra Valley were identified with silicites from the Baltic Sea. The age of Baltic flints is associated with the Uppermost Cretaceous, more precisely with the Maastrichtian or Palaeogene. However, it turned out that among these rocks, there are also silicites that are of different ages and origins. They were first found in outcrops of sands and gravels around Opole-Groszowice. So far, these flints have been distinguished in archaeological assemblages but they were usually regarded as imports from the Cracow-Częstochowa Jurassic Plateau. The petrographic analysis proves that these silicites of brown colour are of the Jurassic age. They entered the glacial sediments via the lobes of the Drenthe glaciation. They were used in the same way as raw materials of Baltic origin. In this paper, we show some examples of Palaeolithic and younger sites, where artefacts made of brown silicite occurred.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

ISSN

0081-3834

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

74

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

31-48

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85144485850