Residues at the Neolithic flint extraction site at Den of Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Papers representing the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the UISPP Commission on Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Times (Madrid, 14-17 October 2009). Contents: 1) Setting the Context. A brief introduction to the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the UISPP Commission on Flint mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Times (Susana CONSUEGRA and Pedro Dà AZ-DEL-Rà O); 2) Residues at the Neolithic flint extraction site at Den of Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Alan SAVILLE); 3) The origins of flint extraction in Britain (David FIELD); 4) The evidence for the seasonal use of the English flint mines (Peter TOPPING); 5) Territories and lithic resources in the Paris basin during the Middle Neolithic (4200-3600 BC) (Laurence MANOLAKAKIS and François GILIGNY); 6) A New Approach for analysing Mining Production and Management combining Geomorphological, Geological and Physical approaches: the case of Ri/Fresne Neolithic flint mine, France (Rodrigue TSOBGOU AHOUPE et a); 7) The flint mine of Ri «Le Fresne» (Cyril MARCIGNY et al); 8) New 14C dates from the Neolithic flint mines at Rijckholt-St. Geertruid, the Netherlands (M. E. Th. de GROOTH, R. C. G. M. LAUWERIER and M. E. ter SCHEGGET); 9) Traces of Earliest Prehistoric Flint Mining Activity in high alpine region of Western Austria (Walter LEITNER, Thomas BACHNETZER and Markus STAUDT); 10) Chert Mining in the Krumlov Forest (Southern Moravia) (Martin OLIVA); 11) Extraction methods in the Bronze Age at the Wierzbica ‘Zele’ flint mine site (Central Poland): a model (Hanna & Jacek LECH, Kamil ADAMCZAK and Dagmara WERRA); 12) Danubian organization of flint mining in the southern part of the Polish Jura: a study from Sąspów near Cracow (Jacek LECH); 13) Antlers in flint mining: technological opportunism and symbolism (Andrzej BOGUSZEWSKI and Ludomir R. LOZNY); 14) Problem of the flint tools from the Sąspów mine site in the light of use-wear analysis (Jolanta MAÅ ECKA-KUKAWKA); 15) Pedreira do Aires and Monte das Pedras: two Neolithic flint ‘mines’ in the Lisbon Peninsula (Marco António ANDRADE and Henrique MATIAS); 16) The gathering, stocking and knapping of flint during the Chalcolithic at Casal Barril (Portugal) (Ana Catarina SOUSA and Victor S. GONà‡ALVES); 17) Evidence of flint mining in the Treviño syncline (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, western Pyrenees, Spain) (Antonio TARRIà‘O, Alfonso BENITO-CALVO, Pedro J. LOBO, Iosu JUNGUITU and David LARREINA); 18) The impact of geological factors on flint mining and large blade production in the Betic Cordillera (Spain) in the 4th – 3rd mill. BC (Antonio MORGADO and José A. LOZANO); 19) Prehistoric flint exploitation in Loma de Enmedio-Realillo (Tarifa coast, Cádiz, Spain) (Salvador DOMà NGUEZ-BELLA, José RAMOS MUà‘OZ and Javier MARTà NEZ); 20) Searchers and miners: fi rst signs of Flint exploitation in Madrid’s region (Javier BAENA et al); 21) Time for action. The chronology of mining events at Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain) (Pedro Dà AZ-DEL-Rà O and Susana CONSUEGRA); 22) Working in the Flint Mine: Percussion Tools and Labour Organisation at Casa Montero (Spain) (Marta CAPOTE); 23) Mining tools use in a mining context or how can the expected become unexpected (Xavier TERRADAS, Ignacio CLEMENTE and Juan F. GIBAJA); 24) Prehistoric Flint Mines of the Gargano: an Overview (Massimo TARANTINI, Attilio GALIBERTI and Fabrizio MAZZAROCCHI); 25) Two Flint Caches from a Lower-Middle Paleolithic Flint Extraction and Workshop Complex at Mount Pua, Israel (Ran BARKAI and Avi GOPHER); 26) A new Neolithic quarry complex at Har Gevim, Israel: An introduction (Avi GOPHER and Ran BARKAI); 27) Reassessment of a putative chert quarry in Oman (Gerhard TRNKA); 28) Flint procurement strategies of the early hunter-gatherers of eastern Uruguay (José Là“PEZ MAZZ, Andrés GASCUE and Gustavo PIà‘EIRO)