Human Uses of Flint and Chert: Proceedings of the fourth international flint symposium held at Brighton Polytechnic 10–15 April 1983

by Edited by G. DE G. Sieveking , M. H. Newcomer

• ISBN13: 9780521169165
• ISBN10: 052116916X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This 1987 volume presents thirty papers on the archaeological uses of flint. They were presented at the Fourth International Flint Symposium in 1983, and together they give an interdisciplinary review. For publication by Cambridge, each paper has been carefully edited. The topics include: flint technology, particularly the experimental reconstruction of the manufacturing process; wear traces on flint implements; the mining and quarrying of flint in prehistory; and models for chert exchanges. The companion volume, The Scientific Study of Flint and Chert, is edited by G. de G. Sieveking and M. B. Hart.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Refitting stone artefacts: why bother?

Technological variability and change seen through core reconstruction

Intentional breakage in a late upper Palaeolithic assemblage from southern England

Flint chips from Pinevent

An experiment to produce a ground flint axe

Experimental investigation of the heat treatment of flint

The development and application of wear traces on flint tools

Microflaking quantification

The influence of flint microstructure on the formation of microwear polishes

Problems encountered in a high-power microwear study of some Egyptian predynastic lithic artefacts

Mount Sandel microwear: a preliminary report

Wear analysis of a Lower Magdalenian flint assemblage from southwestern France

The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed river

Prehistoric flint mining: the history of research - a review

The technological relationship between flint mining and early copper mining

The exploitation of chocolate flint in central Poland

Flint mining in Sweden during the Neolithic period: new evidence from the Kvarnby-S. Sallerup area

A flint quarry in the Hambledon Hill Neolithic enclosure complex

The ancient chert mines at Wadi el-Sheikh (Egypt)

A sociocultural perspective on the spatial analysis of commodity and stylistic distributions

Exchange pathways at a stone axe factory in Papua New Guinea

Neolithic exchange systems in central Europe 5000-3000 BC

Sources and specialists: three ancient Near Eastern urban flint industries

Recent developments in the application of the k-means approach to spatial analysis

Circulation of Solutrean foliate points within the Perigord, SW France

Recent work on sources of Italian flint

Danubian raw material distribution patterns in eastern central Europe

Cretaceous chert sourcing in north east Ireland: preliminary results

Microwear polishes, blind tests, and texture analysis

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