Abstract

The concept of Terminal Lithic Industries has been developed as a result of a century-long interest of Polish archaeologists in chipped stone materials from the turn of Stone and Bronze Ages. Terminal assemblages ofthat period are described by such elements as: prevalence of easy available local rocks of any quality over imported rocks, decline of laminar techniques, gradual replacement of typological tools by non-typological forms of expedient use, the presence of implements of «high technical investment» serving mainly as prestige symbols, etc. The concept is presented in relations to lithic assemblages from younger stages of the Moravian Eneolithic