Mineralogical and petrological characteristic of igneous rocks used for making polished stone tools from the Eneolithic archaeological site Masinske Njive (Serbia)

Abstract

In this study we report results of mineralogical and petrological investigations of 12 samples, which represent raw material used for making polished stone tools from the Eneolithic archaeological site Masinske Njive (Serbia). It is located about 45 km southwest from Belgrade, within the largest Serbian coal mining field called “Kolubara”, in the close vicinity to the Starčevo and Eneolithic archaeological site Jaričište. The applied methods – optical transmitted light microscopy and SEM-EDS analyses – provided data about the composition and rock classification of the raw material and enabled important constraints on its possible origin.