Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - QUERNS FROM THE STROKED POTTERY
CULTURE AT THE MŠENO SITE
(CENTRAL BOHEMIA)
AU  - Lička M
AU  - Šreinová B
Y1  - 2021
VL  - 59
IS  - 3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 333
EP  - 353
KW  - Neolithic – Stroked Pottery culture – Double querns – Typology – Mšeno site – Central Bohemia
N2  - 
N2  - From the site of the Stroked Pottery culture settlement at Mšeno, querns (grinding stones), amongst other
items, have been found. These are two-part grinding stones consisting of an upper and a lower stone. In terms of their
form, according to morphological attributes, there are three basic types (plate-shaped, plano-convex and irregular in
shape) and one pseudotype in a saddle shape. Several of them appeared to have symbolic significance. These grinding
stones came from various feature types. At the same time, there was no causal link found between the function of the
feature from which the quern came and the quern itself. Grinding tools were made of several types of rocks, but mainly
of palaeorhyolite, outcrops of which are located at a distance of about 40 km. Various methods and forms of transport
of the raw materials are discussed (transport along the River Elbe and then by land, whether the items were obtained
by barter or theft, or by some cooperative mission to the sources), the possibility of the back side of the plano-convex
querns being used for specific purposes is also discussed.
ER  -