Research Catalog

Title

Flint and stone in the Neolithic period / edited by Alan Saville.

Publication

Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Neolithic Studies Group.
• Saville, Alan, 1946-

Description

xii, 315 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 11

Uniform Title

Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 11.

Subject

• Europa
• Europe > Antiquities > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Europe > Congresses
• Feuerstein
• Funde
• Great Britain > Antiquities > Congresses
• Neolithic period > Europe > Congresses
• Neolithic period > Great Britain > Congresses
• Neolithikum
• Stone implements > Europe > Congresses
• Tools, Prehistoric > Europe > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of a seminar organized by the Neolithic Studies Group.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Neolithic lithic studies : what do we know, what do we want to know? / Alan Saville -- The Levallois-like approach of late Neolithic Britain : a discussion based on finds from the Stoneyhill Project, Aberdeenshire / Torben Bjarke Ballin -- The felsite quarry complex of Northmaven : observations from a fact-finding mission to Shetland / Torben Bjarke Ballin -- The Sweet Track, Somerset, and lithic scatters : walking the land, collecting artefacts, and discovering the earliest Neolithic community / Clive Jonathon Bond -- New discoveries at the Mynydd Rhiw axehead production site / Steve Burrow, Heather Jackson and Nigel Blackamore -- Stonehenge, looking from the inside out : a comparative analysis of landscape surveys in southern Britain / Benjamin Tun-Yee Chan -- Shining water, shifting sand : exotic lithic material from Luce Sands, southwest Scotland / Diana Coles -- Seamer axeheads in southern England / David Field -- Neolithic territories and lithic production : some examples from the Paris basin and neighbouring regions / François Giligny -- Why do people use exotic raw materials? : the case of obsidian in the Near East during the Halaf period / Elizabeth Healey -- Polished rectangular flint knives : elaboration or replication? / Roy Loveday -- Burning issues : fire and the manufacture of stone tools in Neolithic Britain / Amelia Pannett -- A shot in the dark? : interpreting evidence for prehistoric conflict / Martin Smith, Megan Brickley and Stephany Leach -- Prehistoric extraction : further suggestions from ethnography / Peter Topping -- 'Shiny and colourful' : raw material selection and the production of edge tools in late Neolithic Makriyalos, Greece / Christina Tsoraki -- Ideology and context within the European flint-mining tradition / Paul Wheeler.

ISBN

• 9781842174203
• 1842174207

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library