A comprehensive petrographic and geochemical evaluation of the sandstone ground stone tools from the Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa site

In total, 1061 polished and ground stone tools were unearthed from the stratified tell settlement of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa. During the excavation of the multiperiod tell site (in the 1980s and 1990s), detailed archaeological study of the excavated archaeological finds (mainly chipped-, polished stone tools and ceramics) was started, including archaeometric sourcing of the lithic raw materials. Among the numerous polished stone tools and ground stone tools (GSTs), the latter ones dominate (they represent threequarters of the total amount) (Starnini et al., 2015; Miklós et al., 2021; 2024). Due to their quantity, the investigation of these macro-lithic tools is an important task in the provenance analysis of the stone tools. The archaeometric investigation, including petrography and geochemistry, of such artefacts to determine their raw materials has not been conducted routinely.