Burins from tanged points. Some remarks on a specific way of shaping of tanged points

Abstrakt

a direct inspiration for writing this paper was a very interesting lithic collection (unpublished yet) from the village of Sucha Rzeczka, the augustów district, the Podlaskie Voivodeship, about 30 km south-west of the city of Suwałki (fig. 1). The site was accidentally discovered in 182 by aleksander Bursche during his stroll along Lake Serwy. in the same year the collected material was delivered to karol Szymczak, who, together with Tadeusz zajączkowski, revisited the place in 14. Unfortunately, by that time the site located on the southern coast of Lake Serwy was nearly completely destroyed in the course of building of a tourist resort. only a series of the remaining artefacts was collected from the surface, and a general plan of the archaeological material concentrations was made. The most interesting flint tools found at Sucha Rzeczka are peculiar forms of burins made from tanged points, to which we would like to devote the main part of our paper. a cognitive potential of the surface collection from Sucha Rzeczka is best seen in a context of technological studies – a key to interpret valuable information recorded in archaeological material, but illegible for other, e.g. typological methods. on the one hand, such an analysis allowed us to differentiate here three chronological episodes of the Stone age settlement, to connect particular artefacts with them, even not characteristic ones, such as flakes and blades, and to place these artefacts in a proper moment of the operation chain. on the other hand, it allowed to set up a general hypothesis on the function and the character of the site, the economy of raw material, and the ways of its treatment. These results are especially valuable because, among others, they concern Pre-Swiderian cultural units from north- -eastern Poland, about which we still do not know too much.