The key points in
the history of research of 27 sites, which materials are used to characterise
the typology of flint and obsidian artefacts and flint production of the LBK
culture, are highlighted. The state of research of each site is reflected, as
well as the contribution of individual scholars in different periods of
history. It is noted that in the interwar period, the following scholars from
Ukrainian and Polish archaeological schools were engaged in the study of the
Neolithic in Western Ukraine: W. Antoniewicz, O. Tsynkalovskyi, J. Fitzke, Ya. Pasternak,
V. Kobilnyk; during the years of Soviet rule and Ukrainian independence,
research was conducted by: T. Passek, K. Chernysh, T. Movsha, I.
Sveshnikov, Yu. Zakharuk, M. Kuchera, O. Pozikhovskyi, V. Pyasetskyi,
B. Vasylenko, M. Peleshchyshyn, V. Konoplya, I. Mykhalchyshyn, H.
Okhrimenko, V. Tkach, P. Dovhan,
N. Stebliy, T. Tkachuk, O. Zlatohorskyi, S. Telizhenko,
B. Salo, O. Silaev,
A. Havinskyi, O. Lenartovych,
and others.
The contribution of
O. Tsynkalovskyi, Ya. Pasternak, V. Kobylnik,
I. Sveshnikov, D. Telegin, H. Okhrimenko, M. Peleshchyshyn, V. Konoplya,
and S. Telizhenko to the development of methods of processing collections and
typological constructions were noted. It was noticed that the issue of
developing typology and classification of flint tools in Ukraine belongs to the
general European scientific context.
Based on previously
developed typological constructions and following the sequence of flint
processing stages, an attempt was made to characterise the flint production of
the LBK culture within the ‘category–group–type’ coordinate system. Based on
typological and statistical analysis of flint inventory collections,
localisation of marker sites, and analysis of the frequency of use of certain
types of raw materials, in particular obsidian, during the Mesolithic and
Neolithic periods, an assumption was made about the possible continuity of
flint processing technology at the turn of the two eras.