STARE GMAJNE PILE-DWELLING SETTLEMENT AND ITS ERA
The Ljubljansko barje in the 2nd half of the 4th millennium BC

Janez TURK

13. Petrologic composition and origin of stone finds from the sites Stare gmajne and Blatna Brezovica

Stare gmajne; all analysed finds according to lithologic types.

Abstract

Petrologic composition of querns and other stone assemblage from archaeological sites Stare gmajne and Blatna Brezovica was assessed. Querns are mostly of quartz sandstone and quartz conglomerate. Such rocks can be found on hills nearby the Ljubljansko barje. Sources of this kind of rock are Carboniferous-Permian and Middle Permian clastic rocks, which form hills in a band stretching from Ljubljana to Horjul, i.e. northwestern outskirts of the Ljubljansko barje.

Keywords: querns, stone tools, quartz sandstone, quartz conglomerate, the Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia, Eneolithic.

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2009, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 16), 366 pages, 258 b-w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 45 plates, 3 appendices, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 978-961-254-111-8.

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