The determination of the geological provenance of the different rocks employed for the
manufacture of prehistoric stone tools is useful from both historical and archaeological …

A non-destructive method–magnetic susceptibility (MS, κ) measurement–was used to
characterize about 360 Neolithic, Copper and Bronze age polished stone tools of the …

Polished stone axes were used in the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin, but their number
decreased, specifically in burials, compared to the Neolithic and Copper Age. This is …

Good quality high pressure (HP) metaophiolite rock types (eg Na-pyroxenite/jade, eclogite)
suitable for making prehistoric polished stone implements were unknown among Hungarian …

A multidisciplinary study of the stone tool assemblage from the Late Neolithic, tell settlement
of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa (Tisza Culture) is in progress, involving traditional typological …

The longest historical period of mankind is the Old Stone Age, when most of the evidence is
comprised of stone tools. This is reflected in the scientific term used for the name of this …

This chapter details applications of reactor-based neutron capture prompt gamma-ray
activation analysis (PGAA). Most of the applications discussed were performed by using …

A makroszkóposan és a polarizációs mikroszkópban megfigyelt általános szöveti bélyegek
és a fő detritális alkotók mennyiségi eloszlása alapján a vörös homokkő anyagú eszközök …

The petrological processing of archaeological polished stone artefacts from the Carpathian
Basin has started to develop only in the last decades. This work benefited much from the …

The article presents the archaeological part of a multidisciplinary project aimed at the
archeometric study of the raw materials of prehistoric polished stone tools and ground stone …