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 1stand 2nd in Bratislava, Slovak Republic 
September 3th– 6th 2002 in Brno-Šlapanice, Czech Republic
In Bratislava 5th workshop of the IGCP No. 442 will be organised in the frame of the XVIIth 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 5th workshop of the IGCP No. 442 will pay following instruction in this circular! For participants of the 5th 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:
September1st –2nd – Bratislava, SÚZA Drotárska cesta 46, 811 04 Bratislava (www.suza.sk)
September3th –6th - Brno-Šlapanice, Masarykova Univerzita, Vzdĕlávací středisko CDV, Nádražní 58, Šlapanice, tel.: 05/44228003, fax: 05/44228337, (see Map -attach)

Registration Fees	until April 30th 2002	since April 30th 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 30th 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 30th. 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 1st Sunday - 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 2nd Monday 
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 3th Tuesday -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 6th and 10th 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 4th Wednesday
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 5th Thursday, 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 6th Friday, 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
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, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic, 

September 1st– 6th 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 15th 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 30th 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
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, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic, 
September 1st– 6th 2002 

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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 30th 2002