Human Uses of Flint and Chert: Proceedings of the fourth international flint symposium held at Brighton Polytechnic 10–15 April 1983
by Edited by G. DE G. Sieveking , M. H. NewcomerEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2012-03-29
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Summary
This 1987 volume presents thirty papers on the archaeological uses of flint. They were presented at the Fourth International Flint Symposium in 1983, and together they give an interdisciplinary review. For publication by Cambridge, each paper has been carefully edited. The topics include: flint technology, particularly the experimental reconstruction of the manufacturing process; wear traces on flint implements; the mining and quarrying of flint in prehistory; and models for chert exchanges. The companion volume, The Scientific Study of Flint and Chert, is edited by G. de G. Sieveking and M. B. Hart.
Table of Contents
| List of contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Refitting stone artefacts: why bother? | |
| Technological variability and change seen through core reconstruction | |
| Intentional breakage in a late upper Palaeolithic assemblage from southern England | |
| Flint chips from Pinevent | |
| An experiment to produce a ground flint axe | |
| Experimental investigation of the heat treatment of flint | |
| The development and application of wear traces on flint tools | |
| Microflaking quantification | |
| The influence of flint microstructure on the formation of microwear polishes | |
| Problems encountered in a high-power microwear study of some Egyptian predynastic lithic artefacts | |
| Mount Sandel microwear: a preliminary report | |
| Wear analysis of a Lower Magdalenian flint assemblage from southwestern France | |
| The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed river | |
| Prehistoric flint mining: the history of research - a review | |
| The technological relationship between flint mining and early copper mining | |
| The exploitation of chocolate flint in central Poland | |
| Flint mining in Sweden during the Neolithic period: new evidence from the Kvarnby-S. Sallerup area | |
| A flint quarry in the Hambledon Hill Neolithic enclosure complex | |
| The ancient chert mines at Wadi el-Sheikh (Egypt) | |
| A sociocultural perspective on the spatial analysis of commodity and stylistic distributions | |
| Exchange pathways at a stone axe factory in Papua New Guinea | |
| Neolithic exchange systems in central Europe 5000-3000 BC | |
| Sources and specialists: three ancient Near Eastern urban flint industries | |
| Recent developments in the application of the k-means approach to spatial analysis | |
| Circulation of Solutrean foliate points within the Perigord, SW France | |
| Recent work on sources of Italian flint | |
| Danubian raw material distribution patterns in eastern central Europe | |
| Cretaceous chert sourcing in north east Ireland: preliminary results | |
| Microwear polishes, blind tests, and texture analysis | |
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