Mesolithic traditions and the origin of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK)

Authors

MATEICIUCOVÁ Inna

Year of publication 2004
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description Chipped stone tools made by both Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic farmers, play a significant role in discussions about the beginning of the Neolithic in Central Europe (LBK culture). In this paper I compare the technology of blade production, the distribution of raw stone sources and the occurrence of so-called culturally specific tool types (trapezes, borers and retouched blades) of the chipped stone industries of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic sites in Central Europe and Balkans. I suggest indigenous development of the LBK culture in the region of Transdanubia. I would like to emphasize the psychological implications on Neolithisation. I suggest long before the physical acceptance of the Neolithic, some changes occurred at the psychic level. First, there was a Neolithisation of the hunter-gatherer soul (psyche), followed by Neolithisation at the material level. On the end of this paper I try to explain the rapid dispersion of the Early LBK culture throughout Central Europe.
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