Chipped stone industries of the Linear Band Pottery Culture settlements in the Nowa Huta region

Kaczanowska, Małgorzata; Kozłowski, Janusz K. (1937– ); Zakościelna, Anna

doi:0079-7138

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Title: Chipped stone industries of the Linear Band Pottery Culture settlements in the Nowa Huta region

Abstract:

Sites of the Linear Band Pottery in the Nowa Huta region have furnished several assemblages of chipped stone implements belonging to 3 chronological phases. In sites Nos 12. 15 and 62 there is a complete sequence of pre-Notenkopf. Notenkopf and Zeliezovce phases showing the evolution of technology and of the structure of retouched tools. This evolution has been analyzed as a dynamic process and also in respect of differentiation of the synchronous assemblages in the frame of the Middle (Notenkopf) and Late (Zeliezovce) phases. In the assemblages of the pre-Notenkopf phase only few retouched tools and debitage occur. During the Notenkopf phase differences between assemblages appear which could be interpreted as functional or phyletic. In the Želiezovce phase richest assemblages occur, showing the spatial separation of subsistance activities and workshops. A greater variety of stylistic features in the debitage can be observed, as well as divergent structures of retouched tools which confirm the different origin of groups peopling the region of Nowa Huta during this phase: some groups seem to be the effect of the local evolution of the Notenkopf phase, other groups appeared due to the population shift from other regions