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Since 2009, the activities of the Institute of Archaeology of the Silesian University in Opava have been focused mainly on the exploration of enclaves of the Neolithic settlement around Studénka. The principal result is a hypothesis about the existence of a distant distribution system of silicites from the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic towards the Morava and Odra Basins in the Linear Pottery culture IIb stage. The system – working on the lineage mode (?) – should have a uniform starting point on the Visla River (a micro-region at Spytkowice ?) and the main destination (places of reloading/distribution centres?) on the Odra River (a micro-region at Studénka, settlement in Racibórz 425). More or less modified silicite nodules from the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic were transported probably in intentional and masse way. We cannot prove another form of raw material movement, but according to the presence of macrolithic cores prepared of the SKCJ on the Moravian-Bohemian borders (Boskovice Furrow) and other facts we can assume an intentional and at least partially uniformly managed a long-distance distribution system occupied prevalent part of the Moravian and Silesian territory. In future, it seems to be necessary strictly separate the LPC long-distant (interregional) distribution from the local (intraregional) one and various features attributed to the distribution in general, whether derived from ethnographic documentation (raw material expedition, gradual exchange) or deducted from archaeological sources (changes in composition of the chipped industry with increasing distances from a natural source), to refer only to the local distribution framework.