Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Biographies of Magdalenian lithic tools from Poland. An in-depth look at two cases from the Kielecka Upland
AU  - Katarzyna Pyżewicz
Y1  - 2015
VL  - 53
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 519
EP  - 529
KW  - Magdalenian – Lithics – Use-wear analysis – Experimental approach
N2  - 
N2  - The purpose of the presented study was to investigate the technology and utilization of lithic materials of
the Magdalenian settlement from southern Poland. The studied artefacts came from two excavation sites - Ćmielów 95
and Podgrodzie 16, which are located on the northern part of Kielecka Upland. The applied research methodology
was a combination of the use-wear analysis of flint artefacts and experimental research.
The obtained results revealed that Magdalenian societies living in the areas of Ćmielów and Podgrodzie had their
economy based on utilization of local, high quality lithic raw materials. The availability of certain raw materials can
indicate which blade production method was used. The experimental and microscopic studies showed a clear distinction
between functional classes of tools and improved characterization of the production technologies used by Magdalenian
societies. The results of performed studies suggest that individual types of tools (e.g. end scrapers, burins, perforators)
were used in a specific manner and most of the tool kits were used in hunting and butchering activities.
ER  -