STONES, NUMBERS-HISTORY - THE UTILIZATION OF LITHIC RAW-MATERIALS IN THE MIDDLE AND LATE NEOLITHIC OF HUNGARY

Lithic raw material provenance data from Hungary from the Vth to the N th millennium BC (Middle Neolithic to Copper Age in the local relative chronology) are summarized using spatial statistical techniques. The principal raw material groups are identified and located relative to t heir geological sources and to their occurrences in archaeological lit hic assemblages. The distribution data are presented in a series of is oscale maps illustrating the changes in raw material supply zones thro ugh time. The data are interpreted in terms of the particular cultural units defined by prehistoric archaeological research. (C) 1998 Academ ic Press.