Grinding tools and circular enclosures - ceremonial behaviour or common refuse management?

0462643 - ARÚ 2017 LT eng A - Abstract
Řídký, Jaroslav - Burgert, Pavel - Končelová, Markéta - Šumberová, Radka
Grinding tools and circular enclosures - ceremonial behaviour or common refuse management?
22nd Annual Meeting of the EAA, 31st August - 4th September 2016 Vilnius. Abstracts. Klaipėda: Saulius Jokuzys Publishing-Printing House, 2016. s. 178-179. ISBN N.
[Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists /22./. 31.08.2016-04.09.2016, Vilnius]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA15-16963S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : grinding tools * circular enclosures (rondels) * Late Neolithic
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
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The presentation introduce assemblages of stone grinding tools from the late Neolithic sites (4900-4500 cal. BC) in the Czech Republic that were collected in the vicinity of circular enclosures (rondels) the function of which is assumed to be socio-ritual. The assemblages consist mostly of fragments of tools from ditch infillings of the rondels, or from other pits in their vicinity. We would like to present assemblages from several long-term excavations where the origin of raw source, the manufacturing process, the stage of preservation, and the location of the artefacts in relation to the rondel or other features are known. The following issues related to the socio-ritual features and other surrounding artefacts will be discussed: Is there any evidence that there is a direct relation between the grinding tools and the socio-ritual structure, such as ritual grinding activities during various ceremonies, or do they represent just a common refuse management in the settlements? Why were some of the grinding tools intentionally destroyed and others not?
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