Human Uses of Flint and Chert

Proceedings of the Fourth International Flint Symposium Held at Brighton Polytechnic 10 15 April 1983
Herausgeber: G. De G., Sieveking; Sieveking, G. De G.; M. H., Newcomer

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Produktbeschreibung

This 1987 volume presents thirty papers on the archaeological uses of flint.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521169165
• ISBN-10: 052116916X
• Artikelnr.: 31386669

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Refitting stone artefacts: why bother?
Daniel Cahen; 2. Technological variability and change seen through core
reconstruction Anthony E. Marks and Phillip Volkman; 3. Intentional
breakage in a late upper Palaeolithic assemblage from southern England C.
A. Bergman, R. N. E. Barton, S. M. Collcutt and G. Morris; 4. Flint chips
from Pinevent M. H. Newcomer and C. Karlin; 5. An experiment to produce a
ground flint axe P. Harding; 6. Experimental investigation of the heat
treatment of flint D. R. Griffiths, C. A. Bergman, C. J. Clayton, K.
Ohnuma, G. V. Robins and N. J. Seeley; 7. The development and application
of wear traces on flint tools R. Grace, I. D. Graham and M. H. Newcomer; 8.
Microflaking quantification Kaoru Akoshima; 9. The influence of flint
microstructure on the formation of microwear polishes Rosemary Bradley and
Chris Clayton; 10. Problems encountered in a high-power microwear study of
some Egyptian predynastic lithic artefacts D. I. Holmes; 11. Mount Sandel
microwear: a preliminary report John V. Dumont; 12. Wear analysis of a
Lower Magdalenian flint assemblage from southwestern France Patrick
Vaughan; 13. The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed
river P. Harding, P. L. Gibbard, J. Lewin, M. G. Macklin and E. H. Moss;
14. Prehistoric flint mining: the history of research - a review Günter
Smolla; 15. The technological relationship between flint mining and early
copper mining G. Weisgerber; 16. The exploitation of chocolate flint in
central Poland Romuald Schild; 17. Flint mining in Sweden during the
Neolithic period: new evidence from the Kvarnby-S. Sallerup area Elisabeth
Rudebeck; 18. A flint quarry in the Hambledon Hill Neolithic enclosure
complex R. J. Mercer; 19. The ancient chert mines at Wadi el-Sheikh (Egypt)
G. Weisgerber; 20. A sociocultural perspective on the spatial analysis of
commodity and stylistic distributions Robert N. Zeitlin; 21. Exchange
pathways at a stone axe factory in Papua New Guinea John Burton; 22.
Neolithic exchange systems in central Europe 5000-3000 BC Andrew Sherratt;
23. Sources and specialists: three ancient Near Eastern urban flint
industries Robert Miller; 24. Recent developments in the application of the
k-means approach to spatial analysis Albert J. Ammerman, Keith W. Kintigh
and Jan F. Simek; 25. Circulation of Solutrean foliate points within the
Perigord, SW France Roy R. Larick; 26. Recent work on sources of Italian
flint L. H. Barfield; 27. Danubian raw material distribution patterns in
eastern central Europe Jacek Lech; 28. Cretaceous chert sourcing in north
east Ireland: preliminary results D. Griffiths and P. C. Woodman; 29.
Microwear polishes, blind tests, and texture analysis M. H. Newcomer, R.
Grace and R. Unger-Hamilton.