Stone Tools at Vinca

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Stone Tools at Vinca
Researcher Thomas Tran Assistant Christina
Lee Section 114
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Types of Stone Tools

• Scraping tools, cutting tools, sickles, and borers

• Investigation of stone tools ?
• determine technological evolutions
• transformations of economic and social relations
• interregional links

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Materials

• Chipped Stone
• silex or crypto- and microcrystalline quartz

• Ground Stone
• macrocrystalline nonsilex rocks

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Use-wear of Tools

• Non-ideally sized tools no use-wear

• Tools were tested for wear using microwear

• Analyzed and put into categories

• Reduction in use of poor quality chipped stone
  material and in waste

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Technological Advances

• Retouched tools

• ability to obtain better quality material from
  farther distances ?enhancement in social behavior

• improved quality of blank productions ? better
  and more symmetrical tools

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References
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South-East Europe Studies in Chronology,
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Kaczanowska, Malgorzata, and Januz Kozlowski
1990 Chipped Stone Industry of the Vinca
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Srejovic and Nikola Tasic, eds.
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Kaczanowska, Malgorzata, and Januz Kozlowski
1998 Neolithic vs Eneolithic Lithic Raw Material
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Markotic, Vladmir 1984 The Vinca Culture.
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Voytek, Barbara 1990 The Use of Stone
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