| Abstract: | In this paper, we describe Neolithic/Aeneolithic implements made from high‐pressure metabasites: jadeites and eclogites. As such rocks are unknown in the Western Carpathians mountain system, we presume distant source areas for the described raw material types. We present the morphology, cultural association, and the results of petrographic research (microprobe analyses of rock‐forming minerals) on implements made from these raw materials found at two sites in the Slovak Republic. We propose that the raw materials of these implements crop out hundreds of kilometers from the sites on which they were discovered. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
