TY - JOUR AU - Szubski, Michał AU - Niebylski, Jakub AU - Grużdź, Witold AU - Jakubczak, Michał AU - Budziszewski, Janusz PY - 2022/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Modern flint mining landscapes and flint knapping evidence from the Kraków Gunflint Production Centre – What we know from LiDAR and field survey JF - Sprawozdania Archeologiczne JA - Spraw. Arch. VL - 74 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3015 UR - https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/3015 SP - 247-268 AB - <p>We know that on the Polish territories that belonged to Austrian and Russian Empires, from the second part of the 18th till the 19th centuries, gunflint workshops were operating. One of the workshop centres were situated in the Kraków region (southern Poland) and others were located in the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine, former Austrian monarchy) and Kremenets (Ukraine, former Russian monarchy). The number of workshops, the quantity of products and their export gave them significance on a European scale. We used several methods to preliminary investigate the area near Kraków using LiDAR and field verification. We analysis three modern flint mines in this region – Zelków, Karniowice and Mników which have preserved anthropogenic relief and well-preserved flint workshops on the surface. Flints obtained during field verification (studies included a set of cores and technological blanks) were analyzed. Our efforts allowed us to attempt to recreate the chaîne opératoire for Polish gunflint workshops as well to determine differences between particular sites.</p> ER -