Mineralogical and petrographic characteristic of basic types of Turonian flints from the north-eastern margin of the Holy Cross Mountains: a preliminary report

• Main Authors: Marcin Szeliga, Miłosz Huber
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences 2016-01-01
• Series: Archaeologia Polona
• Subjects: Turonian flints; Holy Cross (Świętokrzyskie) Mountains; Early Neolithic; Linear pottery culture; microscopic analysis; SEM–EDS
• Online Access: https://journals.iaepan.pl/apolona/article/view/431

This paper presents the preliminary results of mineralogical-petrographical investigations of several basic types of Turonian flints from the north-eastern margin of the Holy Cross (Świętokrzyskie) Mountains. To discriminate the character and degree of individual types of flints based on their mineralogic and petrographic features, microscopic analyses of series of representative samples of flint raw material from different parts of the Turonian outcrops and archaeological artefacts found at the early Neolithic site in Tominy (Opatów district) were performed. The microscopic investigations were conducted using a petrographic microscope and a scanning electron microscope (SEM–EDS). The results enable us to determine some characteristic properties of individual types of Turonian flints, and to identify the so-called Zawada flint in the Linear Pottery Culture inventory from Tominy.