Flintwork - Flintknapping

• Witold Migal – experimentator with flint

Flint products of Funnel Beaker Culture people from the sites in Ćmielów and Gródek by the Bug river have macrolitic character, which developed under the influence of people from Trypillian culture. Advanced flint technique was based mainly on the production of big flint turnings. The material that was most often used by these people was flint from Wołyń and Świeciechów. Ćmielów production was based on the material from Świeciechów, whereas Gródek production was based on the material from Wołyń. As far as the settlement in Gródek is concerned, imported half - finished products from Świeciechów flint functioned as a supplement. In the case of Ćmielów settlement it was similar, here the half - finished products from Wołyń flint were the supplement.

Places where flint raw materials were mined

Mining field of Świeciechów flint

Świeciechów flint

Probably in this way flint concretion were extracted

That is how preliminary preparing raw material

The way how odbijania of little flint shavings could look like

Świeciechów flint– core and shavings

Flint shavings

Funnel Beaker Culture bone repairer

Retouching of flint turning

Flint stamps

Marks of use

Every waste was used

Simple cutting tools

Flint axes

Funnel Beaker Culture ax before and after grinding

Mounted flint axes

The miniatures of a flint ax – probably an eneolithic toy

Eneolithic scrapers made from Świeciechów flint

One of the way of using flint scraper

Flint arrowheads

This is the way the eneolithic sickles looked like

A fragment of flint truelle

Flint drill

Chosen reconstruction of flint tools