June 21st and 23rd

MINUTES OF THE INAUGURAL MEETING AND THE 1ST WORKSHOP

The Inaugural Meeting and the 1st Workshop of the IGCP/UNESCO Nr. 442 was held in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University.
Colleagues from 6 European countries and from the USA took part in it.

Main topics were:

• participants introduced themselves (namely their professional interests),
• presentation of results of scientific activities realised during the last time,
• discussion on the internal structure of the Project,
• the place and the date of the 2nd Workshop,
• the publication policy in the frame of the Project and several other problems dealing with the Project.

LECTURES - 1ST WORKSHOP

GROUND STONE TOOLS AND THE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION: EXAMPLES FROM THE NEOLITHIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
Barbara Voytek
Center for Slavic and East European Studies and Archaeological Reasearch Facility, University of California, 361 Stephens Hall, Berkeley CA 94720, U.S.A.

SURVEY OF RAW MATERIAL QUARRIED FOR NEOLITHIC-ENEOLITHIC POLISHED ARTEFACTS IN THE TERRITORY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Antonín Přichystal
Department. of Geology and Palaeontology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

ECLOGITES, JADES AND OTHER HP METAOPHIOLITES OF THE NEOLITHIC POLISHED STONE TOOLS FROM NORTHERN ITALY
Claudio D'Amico1 and Elisabetta Starnini2
1Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico-Ambientali, University di Bologna, 2Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica, University di Genova

REVISION OF THE MINERALS OF SOME ARTIFACTAS FROM BOHEMIA
Vladimír Šrein1, Martin Šastný1 and Blanka Šreinová2
1Institute of the Rock Structure and Mechanics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic, 2National Museum, Václavské nám. 1, Prague 2, Czech Republic

RAW MATERIALS, THEIR PREVENIENCE AND TYPOLOGY OF NEOLITHIC/ AENEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM THE TERRITORY OF SLOVAKIA
L'udmila Illášová1 and Dušan Hovorka2
1Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovak Republic, 2Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

STONE-CHIPPING AND PRODUCTIVITY OF TOOLS PRODUCTION IN NEOLITHIC COMMUNITIES (5TH - 3RD MILLENIA B. C.)
Stanislav Šiška
Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovak Republic

MINERALOGICAL AND PETROLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLISHED LITHIC MATERIAL FROM LA VIŃA / CANTARRANAS NEOLITHIC / AENEOLITHIC SITE (PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA, CÁDIZ, SPAIN)
S. Domínguez-Bella1, M. Pérez Rodríguez2 and D. Morata3
1Dept. Crystallography and Mineralogy. Faculty of Sciences. University of Cádiz. Puerto Real, Cádiz, 11510. Spain, 2Prehistory Area. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. University of Cádiz. Spain, 3Dept. of Geology. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences. University of Santiago de Chile. Chile

STONE AXE EXCHANGE AND INTER-REGIONAL COMMUNICATION IN THE LATE 4TH MILLENNIUM BC IN BOHEMIA
Jan Turek
Institute of Archaeology, Prague, Czech Republic

BASALTS AND NEPHRITES OF THE POLISHED STONE INDUSTRY IN THE NEOLITHIC IN UPPER SILESIA AND POLISH LOWLAND
Edelgarda M. Foltyn, Eugeniusz Foltyn, Leonard Jochemczyk and Janusz Skoczylas
Katowickie przedsiebiorstwo geologiczne, Al. W. Korfantego 125A, 40 157 Katowice, Poland

AKTUELLE ZIELE DER ZUSAMMENARBEIT DER PRAEHISTORISCHEN ARCHAEOLOGIE UND DER PETROGRAPHIE
Juraj Pavúk
Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovak Republic

RECENT ADVANCES IN POLISHED STONE TOOL STUDIES IN HUNGARY
Katalin T. Biró
Department of Archaeology, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, 1088 Muzeum krt. 14-16, Hungary

SERPENITINITE STRUCTURES OF NEOLITHIC ARTEFACTS FROM LOWER SILESIA - COMPARISON WITH SERPENTINITE STRUCTURES FROM SW POLAND.
Alfred Majerowicz1, Agnieszka Wójcik1, Piotr Gunia1 and Piotr Cholewa2
1Wrocław University, Institute of Geological Sciences, pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204 Wrocław, Poland, 2Wrocław University, Cathedra of Archaeology, ul. Szewska 48, Wrocław

SELDOM RAW MATERIALS OF NEOLITHIC/AENEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM SLOVAKIA
Dušan Hovorka
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic