Consideraţii asupra ariilor sursă ale materiilor prime necesare uneltelor de piatră, în contextul schimburilor dintre comunităţile cucuteniene
Considerations on the Source Areas of Raw Materials for Stone Tools within the Context of Exchanges between Cucuteni Communities

Summary/Abstract: The stone tools and different petrographical varieties used as raw materials circulated within economical exchanges in order to meet the individual or group needs, thus becoming the main indicators of this type of relations between the prehistoric communities. Establishing the source area of the raw materials used to make stone tools plays an important part in the analysis of trades between the prehistoric communities. The author of the present study aims at establishing the source areas of the main rocks used by the Cucuteni communities to make stone tools, but at the same time emphasizes the importance of the secondary source areas that were more accessible and used more frequently. Depending on the geographical position of these primary or secondary sources, the author establishes the general routes of trades between the Cucuteni communities or between them and the neighbouring cultures.

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