Those approximately 250 km long route over the between Bavaria and - the "flint route in such a way specified" - is one oldest reconstructed connecting lines of Central Europe. At it arrived already before 7,000 years of flints from Bavaria in the settlements of the Pilsener and Prager of basin. According to the theory of A. Binsteiner connected it the Arnhofener mine with the stone-temporal residential areas Bayerns and The traces of those, which oscillated once over the Danube and the Bavarian forest into the areas around the today's Pilsen and Prague, were long smeared. Only the flint as hard quartz mineral remained over thousands of years. The flints a first preselection submitted and roughly worked on. One let the impact wastes lie and marked thereby a way after

Flint was the most important raw material of the Jungsteinzeit, a part of the tools and weapons because of its high hardness and good fissileness, of it was made. One of the largest flint mines of Europe is appropriate close for the locality Arnhofen in the district Kelheim. In many thousand pits the valuable disk horn stones were promoted. The tightness of the pits deep up to 8 m lets Kinderarbeit assume even.

In bank proximity of the rivers Danube, rain, Naab and blackoh these remnants of the treatment of flints could be identified. The distance of the Danube break-through with world castle into the area of Cham in the Bavarian forest was obviously put back with After the passage of Furth in the forest and the passport of forest Munich, which had to be mastered to foot, the trace of the flint can be taken up again near the Czech Domazlice. From there it runs over the Pilsener basin, past at the settlement chamber of Rakovnik, until Prague.

The enterprise of a trade route would have to be based on a society system, which already knew a specialization into branches of profession, which are neolithisch not provable however. Thus it is only accepted that Prospektoren and miners were responsible for the promotion of the raw material flint, while others manufactured flint devices and raw forms for the export in the close settlements. Finally the community of men had to select and it longer time for the arduous expeditions of other work in the village to release.

like Marjorie De Groot, deny such a strong division of labor in the old and Mittelneolithikum. They see the passing on of raw materials as part of an exchange system, which served rather the maintenance of the social coherency, as the acquisition of wealth. Similarly there would have had to be also roads for Rijkholt flint with Maastricht and for different Obsidian Quellorte.

Literature

• Marjorie De Grooth: Socio economic aspects OF Neolithic flint mining 1991
• E. Walkowitz: The Megalithsyndrom. Bd. 36 into contributions for the Ur and early history of Central Europe, 2003. ISBN 3-930036-70-3

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