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    Methodical concepts and assumptions underlying research methods for studies on the erratic raw material of the Polish Lowland. Geology versus archaeology
    (Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018) Chachlikowski, Piotr; Werra, Dagmara H.; Woźny, Marzena
    Inadequate levels of identification of glacial resources of raw materials in the Polish Lowlands areas and unreliable geological determinations of the assortment and frequency of local Fennoscandian erratics have established the opinion among archaeologists of alleged shortages in appropriate petrologically differentiated material necessary for stone industry in glacial areas. The claim has been made that raw material shortages were supplemented by massive imports of exogenous rocks from areas of their natural deposits. Yet a long study undertaken by the author on the Lowland inventory of erratics has proved that they constituted an extremely abundant and lithologically diversified source of raw materials. In the study, relatively large numbers of boulders and pebbles have been examined, regardless of their so-called indicating usefulness and with their appropriate overall measurements parameters taken into consideration. The exceptional abundance of local glacial ‘deposits’ effectively balanced the deficit in imported rock raw material for the local stone worker and inhibited the demand for imports.
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    Mining of lithic erratic raw material in the Polish Lowland in prehistory - a precedent or common practice?
    (Instytut Archeologii UŁ, Łódzka Fundacja Badań Naukowych, Stowarzyszenie Naukowe Archeologów Polskich, 2017) Chachlikowski, Piotr; Marciniak-Kajzer, Anna; Andrzejewski, Aleksander; Golański, Adam; Rzepecki, Seweryn; Wąs, Marcin
    Stone raw materials were actively procured by the inhabitants of the Polish Lowland in prehistory by way of intense exploitation of the local resources of Fennoscandian erratic boulders and pebbles and – on a very small scale – by gaining “imports” from the areas rich in stone resources. A particularly abundant source of stone for these communities were boulders and pebbles deposited in the form of rock block assemblages that constituted the so-called Pleistocene pavements deposited by the continental glacier in forms of numerous formations of the early glacial landscape. These local assemblages of erratic stones formed a rich and, at the same time varied in terms of their available assortment, reservoirs of raw material useful in the prehistoric stone production, and also finding their application as building material. The more and more source-documented examples prove that the societies that inhabited the Polish Lowland in the past exploited rock material largely by way of mining exploitation of appropriate (in terms of lithological and size-related features) rock concretions from among the pool of erratic stones that formed the local glacial pavements. The relics linked with prehistoric mining of stone pavements in the Lowland do not belong to the category of unprecedented objects on the archaeological map of the polish Lowland any more. On the contrary, the assumption may be that this method of raw material procurement was relatively common among the societies that inhabited in the past the areas covered by the last Pleistocene glaciation.
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    The erratic stone raw material reservoir in the Polish Lowland and its procurement and selection within the local late Neolithic societies. Choices between the 'gift' from the glacial past and the Earth's natural resources of the 'south'
    (Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków; Alter Radosław Palonka, 2018) Chachlikowski, Piotr; Valde-Nowak, Paweł; Sobczyk, Krzysztof; Nowak, Marek; Źrałka, Jarosław
    For the late Neolithic communities in the Polish Lowland the primary raw material employed to manufacture their stone implements was obtained by extensive exploitation of local Fennoscandian erratics. The wide use of glacially deposited rock fragments in the local stone industry was common and frequent, whatever the physical dimensions, tool purpose and the lithological composition of appropriate raw material used for its production were needed. The Polish Lowland abounded in glacial erratics which constituted an extremely rich and exhibiting considerable lithological variety source of all necessary raw materials for the local stone worker. The raw material abundance in all necessary materials for the local stone industry virtually eliminated any necessity for importing raw materials from areas of their natural deposits. The relics of the glacial past of the Polish Lowland with their rich lithological variety fully satisfied the demand of the local population for raw materials necessary for the local stone production, making the stone industry of the local early agrarian communities fully independent of the stone deposits in the South. The documented attractiveness of the inventory of erratics in the Polish Lowland thereby challenges the traditional and the so far well-established scholarly explanation of most of the manifestations of the acquisition and exploitation of raw materials imported to the Polish Lowland in the Neolithic as a deliberate action aimed in extenso at supplementing supposed shortcomings in certain types of rock in the local early glacial available resources.