The Neolithic chocolate flint mine “Oszybka” in Pakosław, Mazowieckie voivodeship, in the light of the survey of Marcin Bednarz –new approach to old fieldwalk materials
Neolityczna kopalnia krzemienia czekoladowego „Oszybka” w Pakosławiu w województwie mazowieckim w świetle badań Marcina Bednarza – nowe spojrzenie na stare materiały terenowe

Summary/Abstract: The flint mine “Oszybka” in Pakosław, Mazowieckie voievodeship was discovered by MarcinBednarz in 1992 during a field survey on an outcrop of chocolate flint conducted by students practice from Instituteof Archaeology University of Warsaw. During the next three seasons about 1750 flint artifacts were collected fromthe site. This large assemblage contains not only the characteristic forms like cores but also debitage products. Initialresearch made it possible to determine the chronology of site as belonging to late Mesolithic and/or early Neolithic.Further studies were sadly interrupted by the premature death of Marcin Bednarz. After some years, according toMarcin wishes, team from the Institute of Archaeology Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw returned tothe studies of flint materials from the “Oszybka” flint mine. Thanks to very detailed documentation from the 90s of thelast century has become possible to digitalize and integrate it into a GIS environment. As a result, we acquired manyspatial analysis of flint materials and combined them with research in terms of technology and typology

• Details
• Contents