IMPORTANȚA UNEI LITOTECI ARHEOLOGICE ÎN CERCETAREA MICROREGIONALĂ A ARTEFACTELOR DE PIATRĂ. STUDIU DE CAZ: DESCOPERIRILE NEOLITICE ȘI ENEOLITICE DIN DEPRESIUNEA CRACĂU-BISTRIȚA
THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LITHOTHEQUE IN MICROREGIONAL STONE ARTEFACT RESEARCH. CASE STUDY: NEOLITHIC AND ENEOLITHIC DISCOVERIES FROM THE CRACĂU-BISTRITA DEPRESSION

Summary/Abstract: In-depth knowledge of the sources of supply of lithic and non-lithic raw materials, used in Neolithic and Eneolithic sites, represents one of the important challenges of archaeological, archaeometric, geological research, in a continuous multi- and interdisciplinary approach. In this sense, for the multilateral investigation of Neolithic and Eneolithic lithic tools, the establishment and operationalization of microzonal and regional archaeological lithothecs is essential. In the present work, the author presents a brief history of archaeological lithothecs and their current status worldwide and the Romanian experience in this field. In order to achieve an applied treatment, it shows what were the concerns related to the petroarchaeological research on the Neolithic and Eneolithic lithic artifacts discovered in the German subcarpathian depressions and pleads for the necessity and importance of creating a microzonal archaeological lithotheque (Cracău-Bistrița Depression), focusing - and the approach to the last geographical subunit, as a necessary condition for making real steps forward in this complex field.

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