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Flint and Stone in the Neolithic Period
About this book
Lithic artefacts were an intrinsic part of Neolithic life both in terms of everyday practical use and in ritual/symbolic mode. Archaeologists and prehistorians studying the Neolithic period recognise this, and accordingly, strive to maximise relevant data recovery and subsequently exploit the available data to the full. Fulfilling these ambitions requires specialist input, which not only comes from lithic analysts themselves, but also draws on a wide range of expertise from across archaeology and other disciplines and practices. The papers in this volume demonstrate some of the diverse approaches and applications, both direct and theoretical, which are contributing towards our ultimate goal of allowing increased understanding of stone tools to reveal more about Neolithic life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Foreword by the Co-ordinators of the Neolithic Studies Group
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- 1. Neolithic lithic studies: what do we know, what do we want to know?
- 2. The Levallois-like approach of Late Neolithic Britain: a discussionbased on fi nds from the Stoneyhill Project, Aberdeenshire
- 3. The felsite quarry complex of Northmaven: observationsfrom a fact-fi nding mission to Shetland
- 4. The Sweet Track, Somerset, and lithic scatters: walking the land,collecting artefacts, and discovering the earliest Neolithic community
- 5. New discoveries at the Mynydd Rhiw axehead production site
- 6. Stonehenge, looking from the inside out: a comparative analysisof landscape surveys in southern Britain
- 7. Shining water, shifting sand: exotic lithic materialfrom Luce Sands, southwest Scotland
- 8. Seamer axeheads in southern England
- 9. Neolithic territories and lithic production: some examplesfrom the Paris basin and neighbouring regions
- 10. Why do people use exotic raw materials? The case ofobsidian in the Near East during the Halaf period
- 11. Polished rectangular fl int knives – elaboration or replication?
- 12. Burning issues: fi re and the manufacture of stone toolsin Neolithic Britain
- 13. A shot in the dark? Interpreting evidence for prehistoric confl ict
- 14. Prehistoric extraction: further suggestions from ethnography
- 15. ‘Shiny and colourful’: raw material selection and the productionof edge tools in Late Neolithic Makriyalos, Greece
- 16. Ideology and context within the European fl int-mining tradition