The Becoming of a Prehistoric Landscape: Palaeolithic Occupations and Geomorphological Processes at Lojanik (Serbia)

Accomplishing long-term plans to harvest and modify natural resources has been a crucial skill for the survival of our species since early Prehistory. Research on this first step production mostly focuses provenience study lithic artifacts uncovered at archaeological sites, using petrographic geochemical analyses correlate with potential geological outcrops. Although fundamental understanding key aspects landscape use mobility, regional raw material economy, extraction technology, Palaeolithic sources have less intensively investigated, as they are often difficult locate challenging tackle traditional approaches. Lojanik in Central Balkans is one largest Prehistoric quarrying areas known Europe, showing numerous outcrops exploited from Middle Chalcolithic periods, over an area 18 hectares. In paper, we present results renewed research program region. Combining airborne LIDAR mapping, geomorphological survey, techno-typological analysis artifacts, were able reconstruct evolution its by prehistoric societies.