From Mine to User: Production and Procurement Systems of Siliceous
Rocks in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age presents the papers
from Session XXXIII of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June
2018). 23 authors contribute nine papers from Parts 1 and 2 of the
Session. The first session ‘Siliceous rocks: procurement and
distribution systems’ was aimed at analysing one of the central
research issues related to mining, i.e. the production systems and
the diffusion of mining products. The impact of extraction on the
environment, group mobility and the numbers involved in the
exploitation phase were considered; mining products were also
examined with a view to identifying local and imported/exported
products and the underlying social organization relating to the
different fields of activity. The second session ‘Flint mines and
chipping floors from prehistory to the beginning of the nineteenth
century’ focused on knapping activities. The significance of the
identification of knapping workshops in the immediate vicinity of
mine shafts and of their presence in villages as well as in
intermediary places between the two was considered in the analysis
of chaîne opératoire sequences. The potential of product quality
and artefact distribution to contribute to the understanding of the
social organisation of the communities being studied was also
examined.
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