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Author:   Alan Saville
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9781842174203

ISBN 10:   1842174207
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Neolithic lithic studies: what do we know, what do we want to know? (Alan Saville) 2. The Levallois-like approach of Late Neolithic Britain: a discussion based on finds from the Stoneyhill Project, Aberdeenshire (Torben Bjarke Ballin) 3. The felsite industrial complex of Northmaven: observations from a fact-finding mission to Shetland (Torben Bjarke Ballin) 4. The Sweet Track, Somerset, and lithic scatters: walking the land, collecting artefacts, and discovering the earliest Neolithic community (Clive Jonathon Bond) 5. New discoveries at the Mynydd Rhiw axehead production site (Steve Burrow, Heather Jackson and Nigel Blackamore) 6. Stonehenge - looking from the inside out: a comparative analysis of landscape surveys in southern Britain (Benjamin Tun-Yee Chan) 7. Shining water, shifting sand: exotic lithic material from Luce Sands, south-west Scotland (Diana Coles) 8. Seamer axeheads in southern England (David Field) 9. Neolithic territories and lithic production: some examples from the Paris basin and neighbouring regions (Francois Giligny) 10. Why do people use exotic raw materials? The case of obsidian in the Near East during the Halaf period (Elizabeth Healey) 11. Polished rectangular flint knives - elaboration or replication? (Roy Loveday) 12. Burning issues: fire and the manufacture of stone tools in Neolithic Britain (Amelia Pannett) 13. A shot in the dark? Interpreting evidence for prehistoric conflict (Martin Smith, Megan Brickley and Stephany Leach) 14. Prehistoric extraction: further suggestions from ethnography (Peter Topping ) 15. `Shiny and colourful': raw material selection and the production of edge tools in Late Neolithic Makriyalos, Greece (Christina Tsoraki) 16. Ideology and context within the European flint-mining tradition (Paul Wheeler)

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