lithics Tag

Raw material determination and determination of its origin is a specific part of the analysis of chipped lithic artefacts. The origins of the lithic raw material analysis are as old as the scientific research of this type of artefacts itself...

Documentation of lithics by drawing has been developing since last almost two hundred years. In the case of the oldest drawings, a volume of lithics was depicted by an artistic shading, later by a dense hatching (see e.g. Absolon 1935)...

Since 1865, when a British antiquarian John Lubbock in his book called Pre-historic Times divided the Stone Age into older Palaeolithic and Younger Neolithic, the lithic knapped industry has been conceived as one of the key sources of our knowledge about the material culture, which...