Millennia of continuity in the votive behaviourof EuropeansThe testimony of tools for determining the value of metalTisíciletá kontinuita votivního chování EvropanůSvědectví nástrojů k určení jakosti kovu
Journal: Archeologické rozhledy
Year: 2020

Archaeology has a great deal of experience with how the misinterpretation of finds creates a false image of the past. The main reason for this is down to ideologically-conditioned stereotypes. The paper describes one such case involving hundreds of thousands of finds of one type of artefact, commonly classified as whetstones, pendants, amulets, etc., from the Chalcolithic up to the Early Middle Ages. The article emphasises that although touchstones from ancient burials had already been identifie