The cultural landscape of prehistoric mines / edited by Peter Topping and Mark Lynott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (66th)

Contributor:

Topping, Peter.

Lynott, Mark J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2005]

Contents:

1 Prehistoric Quarrying of a Secondary Flint Source: Evidence from North-East Scotland / Alan Saville 1

2 Stereo Porphyry: Quarrying and Deposition on Lambay Island, Ireland / Gabriel Cooney 14

3 Scouting for Shafts: Aerial Reconnaissance and the Neolithic Flint Mine at Stoke Down, West Sussex / Martyn Barber, Carolyn Dyer 30

4 Seeing Things: A. L. Armstrong's Flint Crust Engravings from Grimes Graves / Gillian Varndell 51

5 Shaft 27 Revisited: an Ethnography of Neolithic Flint Extraction / Peter Topping 63

6 Mining, Burial and Chronology: the West Sussex Flint Mines in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age / Martyn Barber 94

7 A Risky Business: Late Woodland Copper Mining on Lake Superior / Caven P. Clark, Susan R. Martin 110

8 A Geologic Model for the Development of Bedrock Quarries, with an Ethnoarchaeological Application / Philip C. LaPorta 123

9 Catlinite Extraction at Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota: Social and Technological Implications / Douglas D. Scott, Thomas D. Thiessen 140

10 Diversity Indices and Intrasite Variability at a Mississippian Hoe Workshop / Eric Drake, Charles R. Cobb, Brian M. Butler 155

11 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Gunflint Mines at Brandon, England, and their Implications for Prehistoric Mining in Europe / David Field 171

12 Miners and Mines / Peter Topping, Mark Lynott 181

Additional Papers

13 Virtually Prehistoric: Seeing Beneath the Surface at Grime's Graves Neolithic Flint Mines, Norfolk / Catherine Tuck, Peter Topping 192

14 Excavations at the Cissbury Flint Mines during the 1950s: an Interview with Ken Suckling / David Field 198.

Notes:

Selected conference papers.

"These proceedings originated in a symposium presented on the morning of Friday 20th April 2001, at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in New Orleans"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

184217147X

OCLC:

56641449