The lithic collection from the Chalcolithic tell of Geangoeşti (Dâmboviţa County)
The lithic collection from the Chalcolithic tell of Geangoeşti (Dâmboviţa County)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the technological and typological analysis of the knapped lithic material discovered during the 1960 research campaigns in the Chalcolithic tell of Geangoeşti (Dâmbovița County). The main raw material in use was the yellowish-beige, white-spotted flint, strongly resembling the Balkan flint varieties reported south of the Danube. The site provided evidence of household construction, ceramics, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, adornment items, and faunal remains, along with fragmented ground stone axes and chisels belongs to the Gumelnița-Kodjadermen-Karanovo VI culture. The studied lithic collection was stored in The Princely Court National Museum, in easily identifiable boxes and fairly good conditions; nevertheless, about 30% of the lithic implements available for study in the ‘70s, according to the published information, are now missing. Also, the assemblage lacks/contains too few of several groups of debitage products, which is the result of either selecting the lithic material during the excavation stages, or failing to include in the research plan specialized areas of the site.

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