Prehistoric transeuropean transport of stone tools on examples of jadeitite and obsidian implements
Prehistoric transeuropean transport of stone tools on examples of jadeitite and obsidian implements

Summary/Abstract: In presented paper transcontinental transport of stone tools in the Neolithic/Aeneolithic is described.Attention is paid namely on the west–east transport of jadeitite axes from the Piedmont in the Western Alps to Central Europe, and east–west transport of the obsidian implements from Zemplin county (E Slovakia and NE Hungary) to the western part of Germany, as well. In both cases, transport, most probably of ready-made implements on a distance more than 1,000 km, is discussed.

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