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This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou started her research with the use-wear analysis of prehistoric flint from the Netherlands, and she extended her interests in every possible direction: time, space, materials and technologies. This volume has been compiled to reflect the broad oeuvre of her work. It focuses on the biographies of a wide range of artefact types made from an equally wide range of materials from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe, but also glimpses beyond into other periods and geographic regions. The papers focus on different aspects of artefact biographies including raw material acquisition, artefact production, use, and discard, and even the afterlife of objects in our modern society. The objects in question include quotidian tools such as querns and harvesting tools, adhesives that held objects together, and elaborate objects such as maceheads, jewellery, and flint superblades. Whatever the subject of Annelou’s individual publications, at the heart of all of her work is the love of objects and the stories that they have to tell us. The stories in this bundle are a testament of her contagious enthusiasm.

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Author:   Annemieke Verbaas ,  Geeske Langejans ,  Aimée Little ,  Ben Chan
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789464261516

ISBN 10:   946426151
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A fascination with mundane things. A retrospective of the life and career of Professor Annelou van Gijn Annemieke Verbaas & Ben Chan Forty years on: Functional analysis of stone artefacts and the Annelou Van Gijn ÔÇô Australian connection Richard Fulagar &Judith Field Wear formation on shell ornaments: mechanical and actualistic experiments, two complementary approaches Le├»la Hoareau & Sylvie Beyries Conifer tar in the late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of north-western Europe Geeske H.J. Langejans, Diederik Pomstra, Thierry Ducrocq, Antony Haskins & Paul R.B. Kozowyk Vlaardingen culture or Stein group? From object biographies to communities of practice Lasse van den Dikkenberg If flint axes were so valuable, were axe fragments used as ÔÇÿsmall changeÔÇÖ? Some insights on the exchange of flint axes and axe-flint in the Vlaardingen settlements of the Dutch coastal region Rob Houkes Diverging productions or not? A preliminary exploration of the chemical composition of Neolithic Vlaardingen Pottery Dennis Braekmans Colouring the past. Two remarkable finds of Lousberg flint in the Low Countries Luc Amkreutz & Leo Verhart A small camp-site of the Late Mesolithic in the Scheldt valley: results of an integrated analysis ├ëva Halbrucker & Philippe Cromb├® Ask the stones. Harvesting technologies from the Early Neolithic site of La Marmotta (Lake of Bracciano, Italy) Juan F. Escuela Gibaja, Niccol├▓ Mazzucco, Bernard Gassin, Denis Guilbeau, Gerard Remolins & Mario Mineo What points can tell. Artefact biographies of barbed bone and antler points from Mesolithic Doggerland Merel Spithoven, Joannes Dekker & Alessandro Aleo Reconstructing the biographies of querns within Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy-Villeneuve-Saint-Germain households through technological and use-wear analysis Caroline Hamon Object histories in prehistoric Britain: a stone macehead from the West Kennet Avenue occupation site, southern Britain Christina Tsoraki, Richard E Bevins, Rob Ixer, Nick Pearce, Joshua Pollard & Ben Chan Flint superblades ÔÇô biography and function: A case study from Bulgaria Maria Gurova Things objects can do. Taking an itinerary approach to artefact biographies for utilizing the cognitive, social and emotional magic of historical objects for contemporary society Monique H. van den Dries & Yvonne M.J. Lammers-Keijsers

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Annemieke Verbaas is a use-wear specialist and experimental archaeologist at the Leiden University and Stichting LAB. She has studied archaeological Sciences at Leiden University. She has worked on the objects from many contract archaeology sites in the Netherlands and several large research projects. Geeske Langejans is an Assistant Professor and prehistoric archaeologist, specialised in material analysis. Her lab at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, combines practical material analysis of objects, computational modelling, ethnography and experimental archaeology to unravel ancient technological systems and the evolution of technological behaviour. Aimée Little is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of York where she Directs the Centre for Artefacts and Materials Analysis (CAMA) and the York Experimental Archaeological Research (YEAR) Centre and co-Directs the Masters in Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology programme. Her primary research specialism is prehistoric hunter-gatherer material culture, with a focus on the Northern European Mesolithic. Ben Chan is a prehistoric archaeologist and a lithics analyst focusing on all forms of techno-typological analyses and use-wear analysis. He has a particular interest in settlement archaeology and the archaeology of craft and subsistence practices. Ben has worked extensively on the Neolithic landscapes of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Orkney. He currently works at the University of Bristol having previously held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship at Leiden University.

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