Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe write by Anne Teather. This book was released on 2019-06-30. Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe
Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe write by Anne Teather. This book was released on 2019-06-30. Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe
Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe write by European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting. This book was released on 2008. Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe
Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe write by Françoise Bostyn. This book was released on 2023-11-09. Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe
Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe write by Peter Topping. This book was released on 2021-12-08. Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book 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 were these practices adopted and what role did extraction sites play in Neolithic society. Neolithic mines and quarries have frequently been seen as fulfilling 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 analyzed to identify common trends in traditional extraction practices to produce robust statistics about their motivations and material signatures. Repeated associations emerged between storied locations, the organization of extraction practices, long-distance distribution of products, and the material evidence such activities left behind. This suggests that we can now probably identify mythologized/storied sites, seasonality, ritualized extraction, and the use-life 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. It was used to analyze 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 that emerges confirms the pivotal role played by Neolithic extraction practices in European Neolithization and that the interaction of indigenous foragers with migrant miners/farmers was fundamental to the adoption of the new agropastoral lifestyle.
