Quelques observations d’ordre technologique et typologique sur les industries lithiques découvertes à Atmageaua Tătărasca (Sokol, Bulgarie)
Journal Title: MATERIALE SI CERCETARI ARHEOLOGICE - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
The site of Atmageaua Tătărască in Southern Dobrudja has a long occupation sequence, spanning from Boian A, Gumelnita A1, Gumelnița A2, to Gumelnița B. With a few exceptions, the archaeological patterns were not recorded during the excavations. The lithic industry includes 976 pieces, for most of them (72.84%) issued from the level III – Gumelnița A1. After analysing the material from level III, several conclusions arise. At leastpart of the knapping process was carried out locally, viz. for large and medium‐sized blades. This paper puts forward the hypothesis of the presence of a workshop involving specialized knappers for level III. Blade production is predominant, and at least two reduction sequences were identified. Two types of percussion are observed: direct percussion with hard hammer (predominant) and indirect percussion; conversely, pressure flaking technique is lacking. Tools amount to 36.56% of the assemblage and, supplemented by axes, up to 39.09%. Among the tools, the most numerous are burins (33.46%) and endscrapers (27.69%), followed by retouched blades (19.23%) and truncations (9.23%). Less represented tool groups are notches, sidescrapers, scaled pieces, retouched flakes, becs, as well as an arrow point. It is also worth mentioning composite tools (3.65%) and the reuse of old tools, which were re‐shaped into new ones. The raw material is of high quality; it is also fairly homogenous, giving preference to the local Ravno (93.54%) and Kriva Reka type of Ludogorie chert, yellow‐brown and grey Upper Cretaceous flint (Moesian flint), but also a dark blue chert possibly issued fromthe middle Prut valley.
Authors and Affiliations
Roxana Dobrescu
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP453685
- DOI -
- Views 75
- Downloads 0
Anciennes recherches, nouvelles considérations sur la crypte repérée dans le périmètre de la rue Karl Marx à Constanța
At the beginning of the 1980s, during the urban systematisation in the perimeter of the former K. Marx street (present‐day Revoluției din 22 Decembrie 1989 street), the remains of a Christian cult building were found. Th...
Date preliminare asupra exploatării animalelor în așezarea Cernavodă I de la Radovanu – Gorgana I (jud. Călărași). Campaniile 2010–2012
The paper deals with the animal bones from the point Gorgana I near Radovanu village, Călăraşi County. The sample is not too large, it comprises 636 bones, of which 433 fragments from a waste pit (Gr. 11). The rest was g...
Late Roman African Red Slip Ware from the Acropolis Centre‐South Sector (Histria)
In this paper we present the North‐African tableware discovered in the first four years (2013 to 2016) of archaeological excavations in the Acropolis Centre‐South Sector in Histria. In smaller numbers than the Late Roman...
The chipped stone assemblage from the Early Chalcolithic settlement at Isaiia – Balta Popii
The paper presents, in detail, the investigations on the chipped stone assemblage discovered, during archaeological excavations, in the early Chalcolithic settlement at Isaiia ‐ Balta Popii. The technological and typolog...
Obsidian finds from the Early Neolithic site at Grumăzeşti – Deleni, Neamţ County
The site of Grumăzești – Deleni (Neamț County) was excavated by Silvia Marinescu‐Bîlcu during the late 1960s and 1970s. The excavations unearthed the remains of an Early Neolithic (Starčevo‐Criș) settlement, as well as t...