Outcrops of Exotic Raw Material in the Bistrița Valley (north-eastern Romania) used in the Palaeolithic

Abstract

This article deals with a number of raw material sources less commonly used by Palaeolithic populations in the Bistrița valley, such as amber and serpentinite. Artefacts made from such rocks have been found in the Gravettian from Poiana Cireșului-Piatra Neamț site. The identification of outcrops of this kind of materials in the Bistrița valley prompts one to reflect upon the possibility of some of them having been used as local sources.