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Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe presents the results of the UISPP
Commission, Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Europe. It
offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to
the Bronze Age. The eighteen articles were contributed by
archaeologists from ten countries – Belgium, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and
Sweden – using the same framework in order to propose a uniform
view of the mining phenomenon. At the same time the book reflects
various research methods and traditions. Each article deals
successively with the geographical and geological context, mining
zone topography, research history, methods of exploitation of raw
material, dating of archaeological features and structures,
characteristics of lithic production, organization of labour,
miners' settlements, distribution of products and symbolic aspects
of mining activity. Part I includes the well-known flint mines at
Spiennes in Belgium, Grime’s Graves in England and Rijckholt-Sint
Geertruid in the Netherlands, as well as the equally fascinating
Defensola mine from Italy. Part II contains presentations of other
European flint mines. The book is abundantly illustrated with
large, colour photographs and drawings, and is aimed not only at
archaeologists, who will find valuable data and further literature,
but also at any reader seeking up-to-date information on
prehistoric flint mining communities in Europe.
Papers from the Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe session held at
European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Cracow,
Poland, 19th-24th September 2006. Contents: 1) Flint extraction and
processing from secondary flint deposits in the north-east of
Scotland in the Neolithic period (Alan Saville); 2) Flint working
at the early linearbandkeramik settlement of Geleen-Janskamperveld
(Marjorie E. Th. de Grooth); 3) An economy of surplus production in
the early Neolithic of Hesbaye (Belgium): Bandkeramik blade
debitage at Verlaine 'Petit Paradis' (Pierre Allard, Laurence
Burnez-Lanotte); 4) The prehistoric flint mining complex at
Spiennes (Belgium) on the occasion of its discovery 140 years ago
(Helene Collet, Anne Hauzeur, Jacek Lech); 5) A new flint mine at
Flins-sur-Seine/ Aubergenville (Yvelines, France) (Francoise
Bostyn, Francois Giligny, Adrienne Lo Carmine); 6) The Krzemionki
flint mines latest underground research 2001-2004 (Jerzy Babel); 7)
Open-cast flint mining, long blade production and long distance
exchange: an example from Bulgaria (Laurence Manolakakis); 8) Flint
mining in early Neolithic Iberia: a preliminary report on 'Casa
Montero' (Madrid, Spain) (Marta Capote, Nuria Castaneda, Susana
Consuegra,Cristina Criado, Pedro Diaz-del-Rio); 9) Intensive
extraction of non-metallic minerals during the early protohistory
in the northern half of Europe (Yoann Gauvry); 10) Ideology and
influences behind the Neolithic flint mines of the Southern Britain
(Paul Wheeler).
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