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Long-distance raw material transfers across Romania prior to the Last Glacial Maximum have previously been inferred from either visual and/or petrographic observations of East Carpathian sites. We investigated the potential to 'fingerprint' flint from archaeological sites at Mitoc-Malu Galben and Bistricioara-Lutărie III in Eastern Romania, using in situ highprecision analyses of 28 major, minor and trace elements determined by laser ablationinductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in combination with multivariate statistical analysis. Our results suggest that geochemical analyses have the ability to distinguish between different geographical sources but are unable to positively associate flint artefacts from archaeological contexts to these geochemical groups. The mismatches of signatures between artefacts and geological materials, however, raise new questions and open unforeseen perspectives.

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