Introduction to Material Finds Analysis I (rock materials)

compulsory

ARCHAEOLOGY

1st cycle

Practical classes aimed at getting knowledge about one of the most commonly found categories of archaeological data -flint and stone artifacts. Specifically, the course deals with distribution and acquisition of raw material, production, maintenance and distribution of various categories of tools and objects, methods of their description, classification and their interpretative potential. The course is taught in small groups with extensive use of empirical material.

Year 1

Characterisation of flint and stone raw materials.

Recognition of the flint artifacts.

Fundamental techniques and methods of flintknapping.

Fundamental types of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic tools.

Structure of erratic raw material on the Polish Plain.

Prehistoric raw material mining.

Long-range circulation of rock raw material in the Neolithic - understanding and using.

Use of stone in typological, functional, cultural, and chronological aspects.

Typological variability of stone artifacts in prehistory.

Andrefsky W. Jr., 2005 Lithics, macroscopic approaches to analysis, Cambridge.

Ginter B., Kozłowski J. K., 1990 Technika obróbki i typologia wyrobów kamiennych paleolitu, mezolitu i neolitu, Warszawa.

Inizan M. L., Reduron-Ballinger M., Roche H., Tixier J., 1999 Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone, Meudon.

Król P. (red.), 2009 Historia krzemienia, Katowice.

Student:

1) gains the basic knowledge of distinctive types, technologies of stone artifacts and methods for obtaining and using raw materials related to the Stone and Bronze Age;

2) gains the understanding of the basic terminology related to characteristics of the stone materials;

3) gains the skills necessary to make a proper selection of the stone artifacts and general definition of its chronological and cultural affiliation.

final quizz with mark