Talking stones: the chipped stone industry in Lower Austria and Moravia and the beginnings of the Neolithic in Central Europe (LBK), 5700-4900 BC
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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 book Inna Mateiciucova compares 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. She believes that the LBK originated
autochthonously from the local Mesolithic substrate in
Transdanubia and the immediately adjacent areas (Burgenland,
south-west Slovakia), under the influence of contacts with, and
with a biological contribution from, Balkan Early Neolithic
populations, in particular from the Starcevo culture. She
emphasizes the psychological implications of Neolithisation and
assumes long before the physical acceptance of the Neolithic,
some changes occurred at the psychological level. First, there
was a Neolithisation of the hunter-gatherer soul (psyche),
followed by Neolithisation at the material level. With this in
mind, at the end of this book she indicates a possible
explanation of the rapid dispersion of the Early LBK culture
throughout Central Europe.