second Circular

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),

International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP),

Slovak Commission for UNESCO,

Slovak National Committee for UNESCO/IGCP

Department of Geology and Paleontology, MU, Brno

Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, MU, Brno

Archaeological Institute, Academy of Science, Brno

Moravian Museum, Institute Anthropos, Brno

Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, FNS CU, Bratislava

Department of Geochemistry, FNS CU, Bratislava

Organize:

5th Workshop of the IGCP/UNESCO Project No. 442:

"Raw materials of the Neolithic/Aeneolithic polished stone artefacts:

their migration paths in Europe"

“Bratislava and Brno-Šlapanice 2002“

Meeting location

September 1^stand 2^ndin Bratislava, Slovak Republic

September 3^th– 6^th 2002 in Brno-Šlapanice, Czech Republic

In Bratislava 5^th workshop of the IGCP No. 442 will be organised in the frame of the XVII^th Congress of Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association. Participants of the workshop IGCP 442 ought communicate with the leader of the IGCP 442, not organization committe of the Congress CBGA! Registration fee participants of the 5^th workshop of the IGCP No. 442 will pay following instruction in this circular! For participants of the 5^th workshop of the IGCP 442 no payment of registration fee for the CBGA Congress is needed!
Accommodation

Accommodation will be reserved by organizer of the workshop on the base of your Accommodation Booking Form.

Lodging

Location of lodging:

September1^st –2^nd – Bratislava, SÚZA Drotárska cesta 46, 811 04 Bratislava (www.suza.sk)

September3^th –6^th - Brno-Šlapanice, Masarykova Univerzita, Vzdĕlávací středisko CDV, Nádražní 58, Šlapanice, tel.: 05/44228003, fax: 05/44228337, (see Map -attach)

Registration Fees	until April 30^th 2002	since April 30^th 2002
Participants	150 EUR	200 EUR
Students	100 EUR	150 EUR

Registration fees include the lodging, travelling (excursion), full food, organizational expenses and the Book of Abstracts.

In the case that till 30^th April 2002 less participants as 20 will pay the registration fee, the workshop will be cancelled and registration fees will be refunded in full to all.

Registration fee will be refunded in full in the case when you will cancel your particiopation till Jun 30^th. After that deadline no refundation will be possible.

Method Of Payment

Please pay in our favour account: 0171980883/0900

With bank: Slovenská sporiteľňa, a. s., Slovak Republic (SWIFT: SLSPSKBX),

Details of payment: Project UNESCO/IGCP No. 442/PT 385

Correspondent bank: Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Erste Bank, Fortis Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Erste Steirmarkische Bank d.d., Česká sporitelna, a.s., ČSOB, Komerční banka, Deutche Bank, Lloyds Bank, Magyar Kulkereskedelmi Bank RT, Erste Bank Hungary RT, Banca Nazionale dell Lovoro, ABN Amro Bank, Bank Handlowy w Warszawie, Credit Suisse First Boston, American Expres Bank, Bankers Trust Company

Preliminary Program

September 1^stSunday - Arrival to Bratislava

9.00-11.00 – Registration - SÚZA Drotárska cesta 46, 811 04 Bratislava (www.suza.sk)

11.00-12.00 - Lunch

12.00-15.00 - Excursion Devín and Danube river dam Gabčíkovo, Slovak National Museum, Gerulata (localities will be chosen according to weather)

15.00 - Opening ceremony and opening lectures (Congress CBGA – http://www.gssr.sk)

20.00 - Reception

Night in Bratislava (SUZA)

September 2^ndMonday

8.00 - Breakfast

9.00-12.00 - Lectures (SUZA)

12.00-13.00 - Lunch

14.00-19.00 - Lectures (SUZA)

19.00 - Diner

Night in Bratislava (SUZA)

September 3^thTuesday -guided by A. Přichystal, J. Macháček and J. Svoboda

8.00 - Breakfast

9.00 - Departure from Bratislava (by Bus)

10.30 - Arrival to Břeclav-Pohansko

Břeclav-Pohansko -An important Slavonic settlement between 6^th and 10^th century A. D. in south Moravia, a fortress in the period of Great-Moravian Empire, now a field workplace of the Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. Exhibition of used stone building materials, stone raw materials for millstones and whorls. Guided by J. Macháček from the Institute of Archaeology and Museology, M.U. Brno.

12.30 - Břeclav – lunch

14.30 - Dolní Věstonice - Field workplace of Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and archaeological exposition.

One of the most famous Paleolithic sites in the world discovered by Karel Absolon. Large number of stone and bone finds from the archaeological period of Pavlovian (early phase of Gravettian, 32 000 –25 000 BC). The Věstonice Venus – a small statue of a woman modelled in clay heated in fire. Raw materials of chipped artefacts and their provenience. Making of polished artefacts roughly 15 000 years before the Neolithic. Reconstruction of a grave of three young persons discovered in 1986. Using of red pigments and their origin.

Guided by Jiří Svoboda from Archaeological Institute, Academy of Science, Brno

16.30 - Departure from Dolní Věstonice.

17.30 - Arrival to Šlapanice near Brno, accomodation, diner

20.00 - Information on the next days´ excursion, short survey of geology around the city of Brno

Night in Šlapanice

September 4^thWednesday

8.00 - Breakfast

9.00-13.00 - Lectures

13.00 - Lunch

14.00 - Visit of Moravian Museum (archaeological and mineralogical exhibitions)

19.00 - Diner

20.00 - Evening sight-seeing of Brno

September 5^thThursday, guided by A. Přichystal and M. Oliva

7.30 - Breakfast

8.00 - Departure from Šlapanice

8.30 - Brno - Stránská skála hill

A relict of Jurassic limestones with homogenous and striped cherts. The oldest traces of the hominids Homo erectus including using of fire in central Europe. Mining of cherts in the period of Funnel Beaker culture.

10.00 - Brno – Pisárky

Exhibition hall Anthropos with an exposition about origin and development of the mankind. Guided by M. Oliva, chief of the Anthropos Instituon.

12.00 - Želešice near Brno

Recent quarry in greenschists of the Brno massif. Sampling, exhibition of field measurement of magnetic susceptibility and determination of K, U a Th by portable gamma ray spectrometer. Using of the Želešice greenschists in prehistoric times.

13.00 - Lunch.

15.00 - Prehistoric mines for cherts in the area of Krumlovský les

The mining area of approx. 100 hectares contains 9 extraction fields with adjacent workshops. Distribution of the Krumlovský les chert in prehistoric times. Guided by M. Oliva.

18.00 - Arrival to Šlapanice.

19.00 - Dinner

September 6^thFriday, guided by A. Přichystal

7.30 - Breakfast

Excursion to the southern part of the Moravian Karst

9.00 - The cave of Pekárna

Important finds of Magdalenian arts, sources of raw materials for chipped artefacts in the Moravain Karst, imported raw materials from the area of continental glaciation and southern Poland

10.30 - The Býčí skála cave

A famous offering place from the Hallstatt Period with numerous human sacrifices and plenty finds of iron, bronze, gold, stone, bone and pottery objects, amber and glass jewels. Petrographic investigation of so called “burnt limestone“. Prehistoric mining and metallurgy of local iron ores.

13. 00 - Lunch in Šlapanice and departure

14.00 - Departure from Šlapanice to Bratislavy (by Bus)

16.30 - Expected arrival to Bratislava

REGISTRATION FORM

5^th Workshop of the IGCP/UNESCO Project No. 442:

"Raw materials of the Neolithic/Aeneolithic polished stone artefacts: their migration paths in Europe"

Bratislava and Brno-Šlapanice, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic,

September 1^st– 6^th 2002

Surname:		First name:
Full contact adress:
E-mail:		Fax:
I will send paper		yes		no
Author(s) and title (paper):
I will send extended abstract		yes		no
Author(s) and title (extended abstract):
I will present poster		yes		no
Author(s) and title (poster):
I will present oral communication		yes		no
For my oral communication I will need:	Overhead Projector	Video	Saet Projector	Videocamera	Slides Projector
Author(s) and title (lectures):

Deadline for the REGISTRATION FORM: April 15^th 2002

This REGISTRIATION FORM should be delivered (E-mail, or post letter, or fax) to the project leader:

Prof. Dušan Hovorka, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Natural Sciences - Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Slovak Republic, Fax: 00421 2 60296 293, E-mail: meres@fns.uniba.sk

Papers and Extended abstracts send please by post (original+3 copy) and by E-mail (electronic form) on the somme address.

Offered papers and extended abstracts ought to be concentrated on the problematic of the raw material of the Neolithic polished stone industry.

Deadline of Extended abstracts and Papers delivery: May 30^th 2002.

Important

1) Papers in frame of the IGCP/UNESCO 442 Project.

Project leader offer to all Project participants possibility to publish papers in scientific journal "Geologica carpathica – Special Issue" (see Instructions to authors http://nic.savba.sk/sav/inst/geol/GCuvod.htm ). Notice: those authors who will send papers in extenso, they are invited to send extended abstract, too.

2) Extended abstracts

Extend: 3 standard pages. Abstracts should be arranged as follows: title, authors (+adress), text, references (+ max. 2 Figs includ.)

Authors are asked to submit papers together with the hard-copy also in electronic form processed by IBM compatible computers. Only 3,5“ disks are accepted. Preferred formats for text is MS WORD and for graphics are BMP, PCX, CDR, TIF and JPG.

If did you published in 2001/2002 scientific paper with the logo of the Project IGCP 442 or do you have such paper accepted in any scientific journal, or you will offer such paper to any redaction, let me (D. Hovorka) know it. Send me reprints of already published papers, please.

ACCOMMODATION BOOKING FORM

5^th Workshop of the IGCP/UNESCO Project No. 442:

"Raw materials of the Neolithic/Aeneolithic polished stone artefacts: their migration paths in Europe"

Bratislava and Brno-Šlapanice, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic,

September 1^st– 6^th 2002

Please Reserve for (Mr./Mrs., Name):
Address:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Arrival Date:			Estimated time of Arrival:
Departure Date (from Bratislava? from Brno?):			Estimated time of Departure:
Transport to Bratislava:	by car	by train		by air		by bus
I reserve 1 parking place for my car in Bratislava (September 3^th– 6^th 2002) that means in the time of excursion in the Czech Republic			Yes		No

This ACCOMMODATION BOOKING FORM should be delivered (post letter, or E-mail or fax) to the project leader:

Prof. Dušan Hovorka, Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Natural Sciences - Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Slovak Republic,

Fax: 00421 2 60296 293,

E-mail: meres@fns.uniba.sk

Deadline for ACCOMMODATION BOOKING FORM:

April 30^th 2002