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Book Synopsis The Neolithic Flint Mines of England by : Martyn Barber
Download or read book The Neolithic Flint Mines of England written by Martyn Barber and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only rarely in Europe do the surface remains of Neolithic flint mines remain so dramatically for all to see as those located along the South Downs and in the Breckland of England. Even within England they represent a diminishing resource and only ten sites have been recorded with any certainty. As examples of our earliest industrial heritage they represent archaeological sites of the first importance and have a special part to play in the history of technology. However, despite a lengthy history of archaeological investigation, they have rarely been considered nationally as a class of monument. Although some sites such as Grime's Graves are well known through excavation campaigns, others are known only through obscure articles and unpublished archival material. Many of those that survive as earthworks or cropmarks have never been surveyed previously or accurately planned. Consequently, English Heritage has compiled detailed plans of the surface areas of all of the known flint mines and investigated the sites of other potential examples. Using a combination of field survey, aerial photography and archival research, this volume looks at each site in its own right as a major and important complex and - for the first time - offers a synthesis of the evidence to date.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe by : Françoise Bostyn
Download or read book Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe written by Françoise Bostyn and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden, using the same framework to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon.
Book Synopsis On the Date of Grime's Graves and Cissbury Flint-Mines (Classic Reprint) by : Reginald A. Smith
Download or read book On the Date of Grime's Graves and Cissbury Flint-Mines (Classic Reprint) written by Reginald A. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Date of Grime's Graves and Cissbury Flint-Mines The formal recognition by the Monaco Congress (1906) of the Aurignac stage of culture marks a distinct advance in the classification of palaeolithic cave-relics. The point has been keenly debated, but most are now agreed that Aurignac, as a typical station, comes between Le Moustier and Solutre, and represents a civilization that extended over a large part of Europe. This stage has in recent years been so thoroughly studied that its distinctive types can be easily recognized, and many cave-deposits readily fall into this division; but so far very little of this sort has been noticed in England, ' where the industry seems, however, to have had a special and a splendid development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Flint Mines by : Robin Holgate
Download or read book Prehistoric Flint Mines written by Robin Holgate and published by Bloomsbury Shire Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grube - Bergbau - Neolithikum.
Book Synopsis Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain by : Miles Russell
Download or read book Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain written by Miles Russell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe by : European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Download or read book Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe written by European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Pierre Allard, Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny and Jacek Lech This book includes papers from the Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe session held at European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Cracow, Poland, 19th-24th September 2006.
Book Synopsis On the Manufacture of Gun-flints, the Methods of Excavating for Fling, the Age of Palæolithic Man, and the Connexion Between Neolithic Art and the Gun by : Sydney B. J. Skertchly
Download or read book On the Manufacture of Gun-flints, the Methods of Excavating for Fling, the Age of Palæolithic Man, and the Connexion Between Neolithic Art and the Gun written by Sydney B. J. Skertchly and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe by : Anne Teather
Download or read book Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe written by Anne Teather and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the Neolithic began to be considered over thirty years ago, promoting a more dynamic view of past extraction processes. Whether by quarrying, mining or surface retrieval, the geographic source locations of raw materials and their resultant archaeological sites have been approached from different methodological and theoretical perspectives. In recent years this has included the exploration of previously undiscovered sites, refined radiocarbon dating, comparative ethnographic analysis and novel analytical approaches to stone tool manufacture and provenancing. The aim of this volume in the Neolithic Studies Group Papers is to explore these new findings on extraction sites and their products. How did the acquisition of raw materials fit into other aspects of Neolithic life and social networks? How did these activities merge in creating material items that underpinned cosmology, status and identity? What are the geographic similarities, constraints and variables between the various raw materials, and how does the practise of stone extraction in the UK relate to wider extractive traditions in northwestern Europe? Eight papers address these questions and act as a useful overview of the current state of research on the topic.
Book Synopsis Stoke Down, West Sussex by : Martyn Barber
Download or read book Stoke Down, West Sussex written by Martyn Barber and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early Neolithic Flint Mines of Sussex and Their Wider Environs (4000-3650 BC). by : Jon Edward Baczkowski
Download or read book The Early Neolithic Flint Mines of Sussex and Their Wider Environs (4000-3650 BC). written by Jon Edward Baczkowski and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mining and Materiality by : Anne M. Teather
Download or read book Mining and Materiality written by Anne M. Teather and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Anne Teather develops a new approach to understanding the Neolithic flint mines of southern Britain.
Book Synopsis Rough Quarries, Rocks and Hills by : Miles Russell
Download or read book Rough Quarries, Rocks and Hills written by Miles Russell and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neolithic was a period of prolific activity for the South Downs in Sussex, when enclosures and monuments were being built, ditches cut, large areas cleared and flint was extracted from the ground. This study features one of the last, great unpublished excavation archives relating to fieldwork conducted on the Neolithic monuments of the South Downs, carried out by John Henry Pull in the 1920s-50s. It includes reports from four major areas of flint mining (Blackpatch, Church Hill, Cissbury and Tolmere), largely based on contemporary records and accounts, with comments and observations from Miles Russell. The specialist reports and studies of artefact assemblages are to be published in a separate report.
Book Synopsis Flint Mining in Neolithic Denmark by : C. J. Becker
Download or read book Flint Mining in Neolithic Denmark written by C. J. Becker and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Flint Miners of Blackpatch by : John H. Pull
Download or read book The Flint Miners of Blackpatch written by John H. Pull and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cultural Landscape of Prehistoric Mines by : Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Download or read book The Cultural Landscape of Prehistoric Mines written by Society for American Archaeology. Meeting and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume came out of a symposium focusing on mining and its wider impact, at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of fundamental questions were posed to the presenters, including: did the raw mined material have a symbolic value?, were the mines considered special places? were the miners craft specialists? did they have a particular social niche? In the wider landscape perspective, it was hoped that the case studies would also throw some light upon the choices of site locations: were mines and quarries simply positioned at the most convenient source of raw material, or were other considerations such as quality, rarity or colouration involved? Arguably the special nature of certain mining locations was linked to the local communities worldview, they must have been associated with traditional stories and oral histories. The presence of graffiti or rock art can often betray a 'special' location. Similarly, assemblages of carefully placed artefacts or pottery can also reveal specialised deposition, even amongst relatively mundane 'functional' tool types. Finally, the rare occurrence of burials in some mines and quarries offers further perspectives on how these sites may have been perceived by contemporary communities. The archaeological record does suggest a multiplicity of activities were focussed upon some mining sites, which do not easily fit with interpretations of extraction strategies. Although it could never be effectively argued that all mining had ritualised or ceremonial undertones, in some cases there was a definite and demonstrable special nature to the mining activity: this book presents some of those case studies.(Oxbow Books 2004)
Book Synopsis Flint in Focus by : Annelou L. van Gijn
Download or read book Flint in Focus written by Annelou L. van Gijn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographies of flint objects reveal their various and changing roles in prehistoric life. Using raw material sourcing, technological analysis, experimental archaeology, microwear and residue studies the author tells the story of flint from the Early Neolithic to its virtual demise in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, incorporating data from settlements, burials and hoards from the region of the present-day Netherlands. This richly illustrated book shows the way flint functioned in daily life, how simple domestic tools became ritualized, how flint was used to negotiate change and how the biography of flint objects was related to personhood.
Book Synopsis Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe by : Peter Topping
Download or read book Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe written by Peter Topping and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new title in the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers series focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe through to the Atlantic periphery of Britain and Ireland. The key research questions are when and why these practices were adopted, and what role extraction sites played in Neolithic society. Neolithic mines and quarries have frequently been seen as fulfilling economic roles linked to the expansion of the Neolithic economy. However, this ignores the fact that many communities chose to selectively dig for certain types of stone in preference to others, and why the products from these sites were generally deposited in special places such as wetlands. To address this question, 168 near-global ethnographic studies were analysed to identify common trends in traditional extraction practises to produce robust statistics about their motivations and material signatures. Repeated associations emerged between storied locations, the organisation of extraction practises, long-distance distribution of products, and the material evidence such activities left behind. This suggests that we can now probably identify mythologised/storied sites, seasonality, ritualised extraction, and the uselife of extraction site products. The ethnographic model was tested against data from 223 near-global archaeological extraction sites which confirmed a similar patterning in both material records, suggesting it can be used to interpret broad trends in many cross-cultural contexts and time periods. Finally, the new ethnoarchaeological model has been used to analyse the social context of 79 Neolithic flint mine and 51 axe quarry excavations in Britain and Ireland, and to review their European origins. The evidence which emerges confirms the pivotal role played by Neolithic extraction practices in European Neolithisation, and that the interaction of indigenous foragers with migrant miner/farmers in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere was fundamental to the adoption of the new agro-pastoral lifestyle.
