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Prehistoric Flint Assemblages from Bulgaria: a Raw Material Perspective

  • TITLU în română: Inventare preistorice de cremene din Bulgaria: o perspectivă a materiei prime
  • Subiect: The paper focuses on the importance of the raw material factor in the interpretation of flint assemblages. The general perspective and consideration of every prehistoric chipped stone industry should include an assessment of the raw materials used, their availability, variability and the supplying potential of the palaeoenvironment. Bulgarian prehistory is characterized by a remarkable abundance and diversity of flint raw materials. The main sources are located in the Moesian platform in northern Bulgaria, hosted by the Lower and Upper Cretaceous limestones and chalks. Some of them gain a noticeable importance as an immanent feature among the diagnostic flint assemblages’ characteristics. Typical is the case of ‘Balkan Flint’ which attains a noticeable significance in the Neolithisation of the Balkans and subsequently – in the context of the supra-regional Karanovo I–Starčevo–Criş-Körös cultural complex. Another well-known example of wide spatial distribution and use of the flint raw material referred to the so-called ‘Dobrudzhanski’, or Ludogorie flint, served for the production of the remarkable and incomparable super blades from the Varna and Durankulak cemeteries, as well as from sites like Sava, Smiadovo, etc. The paper aims to improve present day knowledge on the topic and to prevent confusion, consequent upon the irrelevant use of, and speculation about some of the terms and statements related to this problem.
  • Limba de redactare: engleză
  • Vezi publicația: Cultură şi civilizaţie la Dunărea de Jos
  • Editura: Muzeul Dunării de Jos
  • Loc publicare: Călăraşi
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2011
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXVIII; anul 2011; subtitlu: Orient şi Occident
  • Paginaţia: 96-115
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