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It is good to see the historical potential of stone at last being tapped so imaginatively.' -- Mike Pitts British Archaeology 112, April 2010 Overall, the volume offers many promising lines of enquiry and demonstrates just how much information can be extracted from a seemingly intractable material, if one approaches it with a wide range of questions. There is a refreshing willingness to take a critical view of theories of materiality, and an honesty about the purely speculative aspects of wringing meaning out of stone... This well-produced book - with its useful index and its initial overall abstracts in English, French and German - contains much valuable information and many fruitful approaches, and will be of lasting value to researchers.' -- Alison Sheridan Archaeological Journal No. 166, 2010 [Many] papers in this anthology deserve to be mentioned, all supporting the conclusion that 'stone rocks'. I found myself absorbed by reading this well composed anthology. If you are interested in exploring what a good interpretative archaeology could or ought to look like, some two decades after its inception, I suggest that you put Materialitas on your 'must-read' list.' -- Joakim Goldhahn European Journal of Archaeology 14.1-2, 2011

[Many] papers in this anthology deserve to be mentioned, all supporting the conclusion that stone rocks . I found myself absorbed by reading this well composed anthology. If you are interested in exploring what a good interpretative archaeology could or ought to look like, some two decades after its inception, I suggest that you put Materialitas on your must-read list.'--Joakim Goldhahn European Journal of Archaeology, 14.1-2 (01/01/2011)

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Professor Gabriel Cooney is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He served as Chair of the Historic Monuments Council, Northern Ireland 2009-2019 and was a member of the Heritage Council, Ireland, 2005-2015. He was appointed Chair of the Discovery Programme, Ireland in 2019. He is an Expert Member, International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He served on the ICOMOS World Heritage Panel in 2018-2019. Gabriel’s area of specialisation is the Neolithic period and he has a particular interest in the use of stone by Neolithic people, from the artefact to the monumental scale. He is the director of the long running Irish Stone Axe Project which was the context for the discovery of a Neolithic axe quarry on Lambay, an island off the east coast of Ireland. His current focus of quarry studies is the North Roe Felsite Project in Shetland, investigating the character and the wider role of a major quarry complex during the Neolithic period in the Shetland archipelago. John Chapman is the Emeritus Professor of European Prehistory at Durham University, UK. After completion of a Balkan Neolithic PhD from London, he devoted all of his career to that field. He has co-directed major fieldwork projects in Croatia, Hungary and Ukraine and helped to pioneer the sub-field of fragmentation research.

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