Krzemionki-Opatowski ( Polish Krzemionki Opatowskie ) - the largest flint mines in Europe of the Stone Age, developed in Jurassic limestones. They are located in southern Poland, in the valley of the river. Kamenny, the left tributary of the Vistula (Opatuvsky County of the Kielce Voivodeship). Monument to the history of Poland .
Opened in 1922.
By 1982, more than 700 mines up to 10 m deep were discovered, often interconnected by horizontal passages. At the bottom of the mines, many blanks for axes and tools of the ancient miners were found (picks from deer antlers, etc.).
9 km from the mines, an extensive Eneolithic settlement was excavated in Tsmelyuve with a large number of workshops in which axes found by archeologists found in various parts of Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the European part of the USSR were extracted from the characteristic striped flint mined in the mines.
Polish archaeologists attribute the Kshemenki-Opatovskie and the Eneolithic settlement in Tsmelyuva to the southern version of the funnel-shaped culture cups.
See also
- Bednarsky, Wojciech
Sources
Article Kshemenki-Opatovskie , Soviet Historical Encyclopedia. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Ed. E. M. Zhukova. 1973-1982.