Flint Artefact Manufacture Techniques at the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlements at Aukštumala in Lithuania, and Traceological Studies of them
Volume 20 (2013): Frontier Societies and Environmental Change in Northeast Europe, pp. 190–199
Pub. online: 30 December 2013
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
5 January 2013
5 January 2013
Revised
20 January 2013
20 January 2013
Accepted
8 April 2013
8 April 2013
Published
30 December 2013
30 December 2013
Abstract
The set of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic artefacts from Aukštumala consists exclusively of flint manufactured items. This paper presents exhaustive data on studies of the flint artefacts, and on the reconstruction of their manufacture technique, based on observable characteristics of their manufacture. The functions of the artefacts found in the settlements were established at the Archaeological Material Research Laboratory at Klaipėda University, by means of an Olympus SZX16 microscope, and simultaneously their typology and the chronology of individual items were revised.