Lithic implements and the circulation of raw materials in the Great Hungarian Plain during the Late Neolithic Period

Abstract Obsidian was known and used on the territory of present-day Hungary since the Middle Palaeolithic period. The raw material sources are located on the territory of the Tokaj-Prešov Mountains. They are known in international archaeometrical literature as Carpathian 1 (Slovakian) and Carpathian 2 (Hungarian) types. All of the obsidian artefacts found on archaeological sites can be assigned, macroscopically, to these categories; this is also corroborated by the analytical studies performed so far (see in details in the study of Kasztovszky & Přichystal in the same volume.). Carpathian 3 (Transcarpathian) obsidian and the other obsidian types from the Mediterranean region has not been spotted on Hungarian archaeological sites as yet. The paper briefly summarizes archaeological data on the distribution and use of obsidian in Hungary, with an extensive list of technical literature.