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Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe - A Social Perspective (Paperback)
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Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe - A Social Perspective (Paperback)
Series: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers, 16
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The social processes involved in acquiring flint and stone in the
Neolithic began to be considered over thirty years ago, promoting a
more dynamic view of past extraction processes. Whether by
quarrying, mining or surface retrieval, the geographic source
locations of raw materials and their resultant archaeological sites
have been approached from different methodological and theoretical
perspectives. In recent years this has included the exploration of
previously undiscovered sites, refined radiocarbon dating,
comparative ethnographic analysis and novel analytical approaches
to stone tool manufacture and provenancing. The aim of this volume
in the Neolithic Studies Group Papers is to explore these new
findings on extraction sites and their products. How did the
acquisition of raw materials fit into other aspects of Neolithic
life and social networks? How did these activities merge in
creating material items that underpinned cosmology, status and
identity? What are the geographic similarities, constraints and
variables between the various raw materials, and how does the
practise of stone extraction in the UK relate to wider extractive
traditions in northwestern Europe? Eight papers address these
questions and act as a useful overview of the current state of
research on the topic.
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