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Mining and quarrying in neolithic Europe : a social perspective / edited by Anne Teather, Peter Topping, Jon Baczkowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 16.
- Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neolithic period--Europe--Congresses.
- Neolithic period.
- Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric--Congresses.
- Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This book presents the proceedings of a seminar held in November 2017, organised by the Neolithic Studies Group (NSG), that forms part of an ongoing series of NSG seminar papers."-- Foreword.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Chapter 1 Flint-working areas and bifacial implement productionat the Neolithic flint-mining sites in southern andeastern England
- Chapter 2 Comings and goings: The wider landscape ofEarly Neolithic flint mining in Sussex
- Chapter 3 Radiocarbon dating on flint mining shaft deposits atBlackpatch, Cissbury and Church Hill, Sussex
- Chapter 4 Tangled up in blue: The role of reibeckite felsite inNeolithic Shetland
- Chapter 5 Being 'Mesolithic' in the Neolithic: Practices, placesand rock in contrasting regions in South Norway
- Chapter 6 Stonehenge's bluestones
- Chapter 7 Sarsen stone quarrying in southern England:An introduction
- Chapter 8 Carn Menyn and the stones of south-west Wales
- Chapter 9 Insights into Portland and Greensand chert useduring the Neolithic of south-west England
- Chapter 10 Crossing the divide: Raw material use in thenorth-west of the British Isles in the lateMesolithic and Neolithic
- Chapter 11 Moving mountains: Reciprocating with rock inthe Neolithic
- Chapter 12 The social context of lithic extraction in Neolithic Britain and Ireland
- Chapter 13 A whiter shade of pale: Powerful relationships between Neolithic communities and the underworld at Monkton Up Wimborne, Dorset.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781789251494
- 1789251494
- 9781789251517
- 1789251516
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