Virag, Cristian: Situl neolitic Halmeu - Vamă (Satu Mare, 2015)
Abridged version
Cristian Virág * * * Beyond the pieces analyzed by T. Chmielewski, there were processed the lithic finds from the features Ml (C22) and M2 (C24) excavated in 20 069. They are both chipped and polished stone tools. Ml; the chipped lithics are typologically varied: blades and bladelets, blades and bladelets with retouched truncation, one of them with gloss, geometric pieces, and endscraper and a core. The raw material utilized is also diverse: flint (9 pieces), obsidian (2 pieces), limnic silicite (2 pieces) and silicified sandstone (3 pieces). The polished stone tools are also varied typologically (axes, perforated mace, polisher, arrow-shaft streightener) and from the point of view of the raw material (marne, andesite or basalt, sandstone). M2:10 lithic pieces (a polished axe and 9 chipped tools: blades, blades with retouched truncation, endscrapers and a flake; four of them have gloss). The diversity of the raw materials is also significant: limnic silicite (three pieces made from a very high quality, an almost opalized limnic silicite and three pieces from a more common limnic silicite), silicified sandstone (3 pieces) and probably marne (the polished axe). 9 Astaloş/Virag 2007.
