Human Uses of Flint and Chert
Proceedings of the Fourth International Flint Symposium Held at Brighton Polytechnic 10–15 April 1983

This 1987 volume presents thirty papers on the archaeological uses of flint.

G. de G. Sieveking (Edited by), M. H. Newcomer (Edited by)

9780521169165, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 March 2012

278 pages
29.7 x 21 x 1.5 cm, 0.67 kg

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.

List of contributors
Preface
1. Refitting stone artefacts: why bother? Daniel Cahen
2. Technological variability and change seen through core reconstruction Anthony E. Marks and Phillip Volkman
3. Intentional breakage in a late upper Palaeolithic assemblage from southern England C. A. Bergman, R. N. E. Barton, S. M. Collcutt and G. Morris
4. Flint chips from Pinevent M. H. Newcomer and C. Karlin
5. An experiment to produce a ground flint axe P. Harding
6. Experimental investigation of the heat treatment of flint D. R. Griffiths, C. A. Bergman, C. J. Clayton, K. Ohnuma, G. V. Robins and N. J. Seeley
7. The development and application of wear traces on flint tools R. Grace, I. D. Graham and M. H. Newcomer
8. Microflaking quantification Kaoru Akoshima
9. The influence of flint microstructure on the formation of microwear polishes Rosemary Bradley and Chris Clayton
10. Problems encountered in a high-power microwear study of some Egyptian predynastic lithic artefacts D. I. Holmes
11. Mount Sandel microwear: a preliminary report John V. Dumont
12. Wear analysis of a Lower Magdalenian flint assemblage from southwestern France Patrick Vaughan
13. The transport and abrasion of flint handaxes in a gravel-bed river P. Harding, P. L. Gibbard, J. Lewin, M. G. Macklin and E. H. Moss
14. Prehistoric flint mining: the history of research - a review Günter Smolla
15. The technological relationship between flint mining and early copper mining G. Weisgerber
16. The exploitation of chocolate flint in central Poland Romuald Schild
17. Flint mining in Sweden during the Neolithic period: new evidence from the Kvarnby-S. Sallerup area Elisabeth Rudebeck
18. A flint quarry in the Hambledon Hill Neolithic enclosure complex R. J. Mercer
19. The ancient chert mines at Wadi el-Sheikh (Egypt) G. Weisgerber
20. A sociocultural perspective on the spatial analysis of commodity and stylistic distributions Robert N. Zeitlin
21. Exchange pathways at a stone axe factory in Papua New Guinea John Burton
22. Neolithic exchange systems in central Europe 5000–3000 BC Andrew Sherratt
23. Sources and specialists: three ancient Near Eastern urban flint industries Robert Miller
24. Recent developments in the application of the k-means approach to spatial analysis Albert J. Ammerman, Keith W. Kintigh and Jan F. Simek
25. Circulation of Solutrean foliate points within the Perigord, SW France Roy R. Larick
26. Recent work on sources of Italian flint L. H. Barfield
27. Danubian raw material distribution patterns in eastern central Europe Jacek Lech
28. Cretaceous chert sourcing in north east Ireland: preliminary results D. Griffiths and P. C. Woodman
29. Microwear polishes, blind tests, and texture analysis M. H. Newcomer, R. Grace and R. Unger-Hamilton.

Subject Areas: Earth sciences [RB]