Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech

Dagmara H. Werra, Marzena Woźny, Dagmara H. Werra, Marzena Woźny

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781784917722
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784917739
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech is a collection of forty-six papers papers in honour of Professor Jacek Lech, compiled in recognition of his research and academic career as well as his inquiry into the study of prehistoric flint mining, Neolithic flint tools (and beyond), and the history of archaeology. The papers explore topics on archaeology and history, and are organised into three sections. The first contains texts on flint mining dealing with well-known mining sites as well as previously unpublished new material. The reader will find here a wide spectrum of approaches to flint mining, ways of identifying raw materials used by prehistoric communities, and an impressive overview of the history of research, methodology and approaches to flint mining in Europe, North America and Asia. The following group of papers deals with the use of flint by Neolithic and younger communities, including typological studies on trace evidence analyses as well as theoretical papers on prehistoric periods in Europe and the New World. The final section consists of papers on the history of archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some deal with the beginnings of archaeology as a scholarly discipline, while others present significant research from different countries. Readers will also find papers on the development of archaeology in the second half of the 20th century, both in political and institutional contexts. The book ends with the memories, which bring the Jubilarian closer to the reader by viewing him through the eyes of his co-workers and friends.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Editorial Preface
• Early Prehistoric Flint Mining in Europe
• Twenty-five Years Excavating Flint Mines in France and Belgium
• Flint Mining in Northern France and Belgium
• Flint Mining and the Beginning of Farming in Southern England
• Women´s Work?
• New research at Tata-Kálváriadomb, Hungary
• News from the Eastern Fringe – The Baunzen Site near Vienna, Austria
• Siliceous Raw Materials from the Eastern Part of the Polish Carpathians and Their Use in Stone and Bronze Ages
• Ongar: a Source of Chert in Lower Sindh (Pakistan) and Its Bronze Age Exploitation
• The Chocolate Flint Mines in the Udorka Valley (Częstochowa Upland)
• Exploitation and Processing of Cretaceous Erratic Flint on the Polish Lowland
• The Latest Knowledge on Use of Primary Sources of Radiolarites in the Central Váh Region
• The Prehistoric Bedrock Quarries Occurring within the Chert Bearing Carbonates of the Cambrian-Ordovician Kittatinny Supergroup, Wallkill River Valley, Northwestern New Jersey-Southeastern New York, U.S.A.
• Methodical Concepts and Assumptions Underlying Research Methods for Studies on the Erratic Raw Material of the Polish Lowland
• Why Foragers Become Farmers
• Acquisition and Circulation of Flint Materials in the Linear Pottery Culture of the Seine Basin
• The Organisation of Flint Working in the Dutch Bandkeramik
• Jurrasic-Cracow Flint in the Linear Pottery Culture in Kuyavia, Chelmno Land and the Lower Vistula Region
• Morphological and Functional Differentiation of the Early Neolithic Perforators and Borers
• A Danubian Raw Material Exchange Network: a Case Study from Chelmno Land, Poland
• Lithic Workshops and Depots/Hoards in the Early/Middle Neolithic of the Middle Danube Basin and of the Northern Balkans
• Romancing the Stones: a Study of Chipped Stone Tools from the Tisza Culture Site of Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa, Hungary
• Flint Knapping as a Family Tradition at Bronocice, Poland
• The Cucuteni – Trypillia ‘Big Other’
• A Neolithic Child Burial from Ciemna Cave in Ojców National Park, Poland
• The Settlement of Bodaki – a Tripolian-Culture Centre of Flint Exploitation in Volhynia
• Late Bronze Age Flint Assemblage from Open-pit Mine Reichwalde in Saxony, Germany
• Workshops in the Immediate Vicinity of a Mining Field of Flint Sickle-Shaped Knives from the Foreland of the Outcrops of Świeciechów Flint
• Mining for Salt in European Prehistory
• Late Pre-Hispanic Stone-tool Workshops at Cayash Ragaj, Central Andes, Peru
• From the History of Polish Archaeology. In the Search for the Beginnings of Polish Nation and Country
• Towards a Common Language: the Plan to Standardise Symbols on Archaeological Maps in 19th-century Europe
• Izydor Kopernicki (1825–1891) and Czech Archaeology
• From Poetry to Prehistory: Mary Boyle and the Abbé Breuil
• The Life and Work of Bohdan Janusz (1887–1930) in the Context of the Intellectual Environment of the Galicia Region
• Albin Jura (1873–1958): Social Activist, Teacher and Stone Age Researcher
• Striped Flint and the Krzemionki Opatowskie Mine, Poland
• Archaeological Research at the Lvov University: Interwar Period
• Archaeology and Art: the Relationship of Karel Absolon (1877–1960) and Czechoslovak Artists in the Period Between the World Wars
• The Basket Workshop Warehouse Manager: Memory by Alfred Wielopolski on Józef Kostrzewski’s Fate During the German Nazi Occupation Time (1941–1943)
• Konrad Jażdżewski (1908–1985) – Pupil and Friend of Professor Dr Józef Kostrzewski
• Polish Archaeology Under Communism
• Forgotten History of Zespół do Badań Dziejów Szkła w Wielkopolsce
• Professor Jacek Lech’s Archaeological Interest in Ojców and the Sąspowska Valley
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