Download or read book Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe written by Anne Teather and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Antiquary written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining and Materiality written by Anne M. Teather and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Anne Teather develops a new approach to understanding the Neolithic flint mines of southern Britain.
Download or read book Rural Rides written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County written by Sussex Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 52 Favourite West Sussex Walks written by Richard Williamson and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Williamson’s weekly walking column is one of the most popular features in the Chichester Observer, Worthing Observer and West Sussex Gazette. Now he has compiled his favourite walks – one for every week of the year. With hand-drawn route maps and practical notes, these routes can be covered easily in an afternoon.
Download or read book The Jolliffes of Staffordshire and Their Descendants Down to the Year 1835 written by Hylton George Hylton Jollife baron Hylton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neolithic Landscapes written by Peter Topping and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of another classic Neolithic Studies Group volume. 'It is a sign of the intellectual health of a specialist study group that its deliberations can generate collections of papers of general interest. The topical issue of landscape is addressed, although with the added complication of attempting to focus on the domestic as opposed to ceremonial aspects of Neolithic life'.
Download or read book Archaeologia written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey Kent Sussex Hants Berks Oxford Bucks Wilts Somerset Gloucester Hereford Salop Worcester Stafford Leicester Hertford Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge Huntingdon Nottingham Lincoln York Lancaster Durham and Northumberland During the Years 1821 to 1832 with Economic and Political Observations written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey Kent Sussex Hants Berks Oxford Bucks Wilts Somerset Gloucester Hereford Salop Worcester Stafford Leicester Hertford Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge Huntingdon Nottingham Lincoln York Lancaster Durham and Northumberland During the Years 1821 to 1832 written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Neolithic Flint Mines of England written by Martyn Barber and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Geological Memoir of a Part of Western Sussex written by Peter John Martin (F.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe written by Peter Topping and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe through to the Atlantic periphery of Britain and Ireland. The key research questions are when and why were these practices adopted and what role did extraction sites play in Neolithic society. Neolithic mines and quarries have frequently been seen as fulfilling roles linked to the expansion of the Neolithic economy. However, this ignores the fact that many communities chose to selectively dig for certain types of stone in preference to others and why the products from these sites were generally deposited in special places such as wetlands. To address this question, 168 near-global ethnographic studies were analyzed to identify common trends in traditional extraction practices to produce robust statistics about their motivations and material signatures. Repeated associations emerged between storied locations, the organization of extraction practices, long-distance distribution of products, and the material evidence such activities left behind. This suggests that we can now probably identify mythologized/storied sites, seasonality, ritualized extraction, and the use-life of extraction site products. The ethnographic model was tested against data from 223 near-global archaeological extraction sites, which confirmed a similar patterning in both material records. It was used to analyze the social context of 79 Neolithic flint mine and 51 axe quarry excavations in Britain and Ireland and to review their European origins. The evidence that emerges confirms the pivotal role played by Neolithic extraction practices in European Neolithization and that the interaction of indigenous foragers with migrant miners/farmers was fundamental to the adoption of the new agropastoral lifestyle.
Download or read book Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey Kent Sussex Hants Berks written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Littlehampton and the West Sussex Coast written by Ward, Lock & Co and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Sussex written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
