TY - JOUR AU - Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena PY - 2022/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - One century of studies on chocolate flint. And what do we really know about it ...? JF - Sprawozdania Archeologiczne JA - Spraw. Arch. VL - 74 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3012 UR - https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/3012 SP - 49-65 AB - <p>The so-called “chocolate flint” is one of the most popular and the highest quality flint raw material used in prehistoric times in Central Europe. It was known and utilised since the Middle Palaeolithic until the Iron Age. It has been the focus of research for almost 100 years, but the questions related to extraction, processing and distribution of chocolate flint are still valid and taken up by many scholars. To a large extent, this has been the result of the discovery of chocolate flint deposits and places of its extraction in the area of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland at some distance from the previously-known outcrops, which has significantly changed the current state of knowledge. This article is an attempt to synthesize the knowledge on this flint as a raw material of exceptional quality, widely used by prehistoric communities.</p> ER -