Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bostyn, Françoise (HerausgeberIn), Lech, Jacek (HerausgeberIn), Saville, Alan (HerausgeberIn), Werra, Dagmara H. (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Archaeopress Archaeology 2023
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Introduction ; About the beginnings of prehistoric archaeology, studies of stone artifacts and ancient flint mines - Francoise Bostyn, Jacek Lech and Dagmara H. Werra ; Part I: Key Sites of Prehistoric Flint Mining in Europe ; Chapter 1: The Early Neolithic mine of Defensola and the Gargano Promontory (Italy) - Attilio Galiberti and Massimo Tarantini ; Chapter 2: The mining complex at Rijckholt-St Geertruid (Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg NL) - Marjorie E. Th. de Grooth , Jos Deeben*, Jan Willem de Kort and Jose Schreurs ; Chapter 3: The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes (Belgium) - Helene Collet and Jean-Philippe Collin ; Chapter 4: Grime's Graves (England) - Frances Healy, Peter Topping and Gillian Varndell ; Part II: Some other European Flint Mines ; Chapter 5: The Flint Mine of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain) Making Society in Early Neolithic Europe - Pedro Diaz-del-Rio, Susana Consuegra, Nuria Castaneda, Enrique Capdevila, Marta Capote, Cristina Criado, Cristina Casas and Aurora Nieto ; Chapter 6: The Chocolate Flint Mine of Tomaszow (Poland) - Romuald Schild ; Chapter 7: Saspow near Cracow (Poland). A Neolithic flint mine of the Danubian communities - Jacek Lech ; Chapter 8: Neolithic Chert Extraction and Processing on the Southeastern Swabian Alb (Asch-Borgerhau, Germany) - Lynn E. Fisher, Corina Knipper, Susan K. Harris and Rainer Schreg ; ; Chapter 9: The Late Neolithic opencast flint mining and axehead blank production on the Lousberg in Aachen (Germany) - Daniel Schyle and Jurgen Weiner ; Chapter 10: The Nagytevel flint mine (Hungary) - Katalin T. Biro and Judit Regenye ; ; Chapter 11: Flintmining at Soedra Sallerup (Sweden) - Elisabeth Rudebeck, Anders Hoegberg, Deborah Olausson in cooperation with Asa Berggren ; Chapter 12: Cissbury and the South Downs Flint Mines, Sussex (England) - David Field ; Chapter 13: The neolithic flint mine at Jablines, 'le Haut-Chateau' (Seine-et-Marne, France) - Francoise Bostyn ; Chapter 14: The Flint Mine of Ri-Ronai (Orne, Basse-Normandie, France) - Emmanuel Ghesquiere, Cyril Marcigny with the collaboration of Francois Charraud, David Giazzon, Sebastien Giazzon, and Laurent Juhel ; Chapter 15: The Neolithic quarries at Plancher-les-Mines (Haute-Saone, France), 5th and 4th millennia cal BC- Pierre Petrequin ; Chapter 16: 'Les Orlets' and 'Le Grand Bois Marot' at Villemaur-sur-Vanne (Aube): face to face in the Pays d'Othe mining complex - Pierre-Arnaud de Labriffe ; Chapter 17: Borownia (Poland) A mine of striped flint from the Early Bronze Age - Jacek Lech ; ; Chapter 18: Wierzbica 'Zele' (Poland). A flint mine from the Bronze Age - Jacek Lech and Dagmara H. Werra
Beschreibung:xv, 502 Seiten
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ISBN:9781803272214
978-1-80327-221-4