Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the UISPP Commission on Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Times (Madrid, 14-17 October 2009) / edited by Marta Capote ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

UISPP Commission on Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Times. International Conference (2nd : 2009 : Madrid, Spain)

Contributor:

Capote, Marta.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2260.

BAR international series ; 2260

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric.

Flintknapping--History--Congresses.

Flintknapping.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : British Archaeological Reports, 2011.

Contents:

Setting the context. A brief introduction to the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the UISPP Commission on Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric times / Susana Consuegra and Pedro Díaz-Del-Río

Residues at the neolithic flint extraction site at Den of Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland / Alan Saville

The origins of flint extraction in Britain / David Field

The evidence for the seasonal use of the English flint mines / Peter Topping

Territories and lithic resources in the Paris basin during the middle neolithic (4200-3600 BC) / Laurence Manolakakis and Françoisois Giligny

A new approach for analysing mining production and management combining goemorphological, geological and physical approaches: the case of Ri/Fresne neolithic flint mine, France / Rodrigue Tsobgou ... [et al.]

The flint mine of RI "Le Fresne" / Cyril Marcigny ... [et al.]

New ¹⁴C dates from the neolithic flint mines at Rijckholt-St. Geertruid, the Netherlands / M.E. Th. de Grooth, R.C.G.M. Lauwerier and M.E. ter Scheggett

Traces of earliest prehistoric flint mining activity in high alpine region of western Austria / Walter Leitner, Thomas Bachnetzer and Markus Staudt

Chert mining in the Krumlov Forest (Southern Moravia) / Martin Oliva

Extraction methods in the Bronze Age at the Wierzbica 'Zele' flint mine site (Central Poland): a model / Hanna & Jacek Lech, Kamil Adamczak and Dagmara Werra

Danubian organization of flint mining in the southern part of the Polish Jura: a study from Sąspów near Cracow / Jacek Lech

Antlers in flint mining: technological opportunism and symbolism / Andrzej Bugoszewski and Ludomir R. Lozny

Problems of the flint tools from the Sąspów mine site in the light of use-wear analysis / Jolanta Małecka-Kukawka

Pedreira do Aires and Monte das Pedras: two neolithic flint 'mines' in the Lisbon peninsula / Marco António Andrade and Henrique Matias

The gathering, stocking and knapping of flint during the Chalcolithic at Casal Barril (Portugal) / Ana Catarina Sousa and Victor S. Gonçalves

Evidence of flint mining in the Treviño syncline (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, western Pyrenees, Spain) / Antonio Tarriño ... [et al.]

The impact of geological factors on flint mining and large blade production in the Betic Cordillera (Spain) in the 4th-3rd mill. BC. / Antonio Morgado and José A. Lozano

Prehistoric flint exploitation in Loma de Enmedio-Realillo (Tarifa coast, Cádiz, Spain) / Salvador Domínguez-Bella, José Ramos Muñoz and Javier Martínez

Searchers and miners: first signs of flint exploitation in Madrid's region / Javier Baena ... [et al.]

Time for action. The chronology of mining events at Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain) / Pedro Díaz-Del-Río and Susana Consuegra

Working in the flint mine: percussion tools and labour organisation at Casa Montero (Spain) / Marta Capote

Mining tools use in a mining context or how can the expected become unexpected / Xavier Terradas, Ignacio Clement and Juan F. Gibaja

Prehistoric flint mines of the Gargano: an overview /

Two flint caches from a lower-middle paleolithic flint extraction and workshop complex at Mount Pua, Israel / Ran Barkai and Avi Gopher

A new neolithic quarry complex at Har Gevim, Israel: an introduction / Avi Gopher and Ran Barkai

Reassessment of a putative chert quary in Oman / Gerhard Trnka

Flint procurement strategies of the early hunter-gatherers of eastern Uruguay / José López Mazz, Andrés Gascue and Gustavo Piñeiro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1407308319

9781407308319

OCLC:

754993979