ZALOG NEAR VERD. Stone Age hunters' camp at the western edge of the Ljubljansko barje

Boris KAVUR

Stone tools

Abstract

The site in the Ljubija belongs in a wider frame of the Early Holocene sites of the Balkan-Danubian complex. The high logistic and residential mobility of the communities of the period left behind a large spectre of sites that the typological analyses of stone tools reveal quite different from one another. They represent areas of different activities within the cycle of subsistence. One such site was uncovered in the Ljubija. It is a site where the “typical” tool types of the period connected with hunting are minimally represented; most of the uncovered tools are general and were used in activities other than hunting. The tools were made where they were used from raw materials of poorer quality; they were little used and soon discarded. When used more intensely, they were repaired elsewhere.

Key words: Slovenia, the Ljubljansko barje, Mesolithic, stone tools

Zalog near Verd. Stone tools.
Drawing: Boris Kavur, Ida Murgelj.

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2006, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 11), 233 pp., 37 drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 99 b-w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 961-6568-57-4.

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