The Neolithic Flint Mines Of England

Author : Martyn Barber,David Field,Peter Topping
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021884

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The Neolithic Flint Mines of England by Martyn Barber,David Field,Peter Topping Pdf

Only rarely in Europe do the surface remains of Neolithic flint mines remain so dramatically for all to see as those located along the South Downs and in the Breckland of England. Even within England they represent a diminishing resource and only ten sites have been recorded with any certainty. As examples of our earliest industrial heritage they represent archaeological sites of the first importance and have a special part to play in the history of technology. However, despite a lengthy history of archaeological investigation, they have rarely been considered nationally as a class of monument. Although some sites such as Grime's Graves are well known through excavation campaigns, others are known only through obscure articles and unpublished archival material. Many of those that survive as earthworks or cropmarks have never been surveyed previously or accurately planned. Consequently, English Heritage has compiled detailed plans of the surface areas of all of the known flint mines and investigated the sites of other potential examples. Using a combination of field survey, aerial photography and archival research, this volume looks at each site in its own right as a major and important complex and - for the first time - offers a synthesis of the evidence to date.

Author : Miles Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043708117

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Flint Mines in Neolithic Britain by Miles Russell Pdf

Author : Anne M. Teather
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784912666

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Mining and Materiality by Anne M. Teather Pdf

In this book Anne Teather develops a new approach to understanding the Neolithic flint mines of southern Britain.

Author : Robin Holgate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015025281547

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Prehistoric Flint Mines by Robin Holgate Pdf

Grube - Bergbau - Neolithikum.

Author : Jan Harding,Frances Healy
Publisher : English Heritage
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021754

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A Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in Northamptonshire by Jan Harding,Frances Healy Pdf

The Raunds Area Project investigated more than 20 Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Nene Valley. From c 5000 BC to the early 1st millennium cal BC a succession of ritual mounds and burial mounds were built as settlement along the valley sides increased and woodland was cleared. Starting as a regular stopping-place for flint knapping and domestic tasks, first the Long Mound, and then Long Barrow, the north part of the Turf Mound and the Avenue were built in the 5th millennium BC. With the addition of the Long Enclosure, the Causewayed Ring Ditch, and the Southern Enclosure, there was a chain of five or six diverse monuments stretched along the river bank by c 3000 cal BC. Later, a timber platform, the Riverside Structure, was built and the focus of ceremonial activity shifted to the Cotton 'Henge', two concentric ditches on the occupied valley side. From c 2200 cal BC monument building accelerated and included the Segmented Ditch Circle and at least 20 round barrows, almost all containing burials, at first inhumations, then cremations down to c 1000 cal BC, by which time two overlapping systems of paddocks and droveways had been laid out. Finally, the terrace began to be settled when these had gone out of use, in the early 1st millennium cal BC. This second volume of the Raunds Area Project, published as a CD, comprises the detailed reports on the environmental archaeology, artefact studies, geophysics and chronology.

Author : Françoise Bostyn,Jacek Lech,Alan Saville,Dagmara H. Werra
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803272221

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Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe by Françoise Bostyn,Jacek Lech,Alan Saville,Dagmara H. Werra Pdf

This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden, using the same framework to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon.

Author : Anne Teather,Peter Topping,Jon Baczkowski
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789251494

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Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe by Anne Teather,Peter Topping,Jon Baczkowski Pdf

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.

Author : Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059264492

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The Cultural Landscape of Prehistoric Mines by Society for American Archaeology. Meeting Pdf

The papers in this volume came out of a symposium focusing on mining and its wider impact, at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of fundamental questions were posed to the presenters, including: did the raw mined material have a symbolic value?, were the mines considered special places? were the miners craft specialists? did they have a particular social niche? In the wider landscape perspective, it was hoped that the case studies would also throw some light upon the choices of site locations: were mines and quarries simply positioned at the most convenient source of raw material, or were other considerations such as quality, rarity or colouration involved? Arguably the special nature of certain mining locations was linked to the local communities worldview, they must have been associated with traditional stories and oral histories. The presence of graffiti or rock art can often betray a 'special' location. Similarly, assemblages of carefully placed artefacts or pottery can also reveal specialised deposition, even amongst relatively mundane 'functional' tool types. Finally, the rare occurrence of burials in some mines and quarries offers further perspectives on how these sites may have been perceived by contemporary communities. The archaeological record does suggest a multiplicity of activities were focussed upon some mining sites, which do not easily fit with interpretations of extraction strategies. Although it could never be effectively argued that all mining had ritualised or ceremonial undertones, in some cases there was a definite and demonstrable special nature to the mining activity: this book presents some of those case studies.(Oxbow Books 2004)

Author : Miles Russell,Julie Gardiner
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056265609

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Rough Quarries, Rocks and Hills by Miles Russell,Julie Gardiner Pdf

The Neolithic was a period of prolific activity for the South Downs in Sussex, when enclosures and monuments were being built, ditches cut, large areas cleared and flint was extracted from the ground. This study features one of the last, great unpublished excavation archives relating to fieldwork conducted on the Neolithic monuments of the South Downs, carried out by John Henry Pull in the 1920s-50s. It includes reports from four major areas of flint mining (Blackpatch, Church Hill, Cissbury and Tolmere), largely based on contemporary records and accounts, with comments and observations from Miles Russell. The specialist reports and studies of artefact assemblages are to be published in a separate report.

Author : Anne Teather,Peter Topping,Jon Baczkowski
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789251517

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Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe by Anne Teather,Peter Topping,Jon Baczkowski Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Grimes Graves (England)
ISBN : 1848020910

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Grime's Graves by Peter Topping Pdf

This guidebook provides a tour of Grime's Graves, the first Neolithic flint mines to be recognized as such in England, and explains the history of this extraordinary site from the Neolithic Age to the present day.

Author : G. Varndell,Peter Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705236

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Enclosures in Neolithic Europe by G. Varndell,Peter Topping Pdf

These papers come from a conference on Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures in Europe held in London in 1999. They present a series of snapshots of some of the sites and regions at the forefront of current research on causewayed enclosures in Europe, and as such are a complement to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) project which has systematically recorded all known Neolithic enclosures in England by both analytical topographic survey techniques and aerial transcription. The detailed regional data collected by the RCHME project has allowed a radical reinterpretation of these sites and the recognition that there are regional groups of enclosures. This series of papers serves to broaden the discussion about the structure and form of causewayed monuments beyond lowland England, looking at a wide geographical range of sites across central Europe, as well as considering some sites which do not conform to the traditional type but which have been proved by excavation to have a Neolithic context. This collection of papers provides a long-awaited and important addition to the debate on these enigmatic prehistoric sites. Contents: Neolithic Enclosures of Scandinavia (Niels H Anderson) ; The Causewayed Enclosures of West-Central France from the beginning of the Fourth to the End of the Third Millennium (Claude Burnez and Catherine Louboutin) ; Le Mourral, Trèbes (Aude) and the Final Neolithic Circular Enclosures of the Languedoc (Jean Vaquer) ; The Late Neolithic Settlement of La Hersonnais, Pléchatel in its Regional Context (Jean-Yves Tinevez) ; The Neolithic Ditched Enclosures of the Tavoliere, South-East Italy (Robin Skeates) ; An Interrupted Ditch Alignment at Rivoli, Italy, in the Context of Neolithic Interrupted Ditch/Pit Systems (Lawrence Barfield) ; Aerial Survey and Neolithic Enclosures in Central Europe (Otto Braasch) ; From Lilliput to Brobdingnag: The Traditions of Enclosure in the Irish Neolithic (Gabriel Cooney) ; Billown Neolithic Enclosures, Isle of Man (Timothy Darvill) ; Lithic Artefacts from Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures: Character and Meaning (Alan Saville) ; A Causewayed Enclosure at Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire (Adrian Butler, Patrick Clay and John Thomas) ; The Howe Robin Story: An Unusual Enclosure on Crosby Ravensworth Fell (Moraig Brown) ; The Seventieth Causewayed Enclosure in the British Isles? (Peter D Horne, David MacLeod and Alastair Oswald) ; Rethinking the Carrock Fell Enclosure (Trevor Pearson and Peter Topping) .

Author : Torben Bjarke Ballin
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789698701

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Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods by Torben Bjarke Ballin Pdf

This volume offers a system for the hierarchical classification of British lithic artefacts from the Late Glacial and Holocene periods, and it is hoped that it may find use as a guide book for, for example, archaeology students, museum staff, non-specialist archaeologists, local archaeology groups and lay enthusiasts.

Author : Dagmara H. Werra,Marzena Woźny
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784917739

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Between History and Archaeology: Papers in honour of Jacek Lech by Dagmara H. Werra,Marzena Woźny Pdf

A collection of forty-six papers papers in honour of Professor Jacek Lech, compiled in recognition of his research and academic career as well as his inquiry into the study of prehistoric flint mining, Neolithic flint tools (and beyond), and the history of archaeology.

Author : Mary-Ann Ochota
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780711288850

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Secret Britain by Mary-Ann Ochota Pdf

In Secret Britain, join anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota for a tour of more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing archaeological sites and artefacts.