A jadeitite axehead in the midst of the famous Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes?
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Errera, Michel
Date published
2019
Abstract
More than a century ago, Alfred Lemonnier, Director of phosphatic chalk quarries in the Mons region, donated a jadeitite axehead from Spiennes to the State among a small collection of 'knapped flint'. Originally, this artefact was 12 to 15 cm long. Several scientists tested various ways – destructive or non-destructive – to determine this green stone until they discovered their origin in the ultimate end of the Alps near Genoa (Italy), thanks to Projet JADE. But this raises a new question: how to explain the presence of an almost complete axehead of jadeitite in the midst of the flint extraction site of Spiennes?
Contributor (person)
Pétrequin, Pierre
Collet, Helene
Sheridan, Alison J
Jadin, Ivan
Series name
Anthropologica et Prà¦historica
Book title
Mining and Quarrying. Geological Characterisation, Knapping Processes and Distribution Networks during Pre- and Protohistoric Times. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the UISPP Commission on Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Times, Mons and Spiennes, 28th Sept. – 1st Oct. 2016
Editor
Collet, H
Hauzeur, A
Volume
128/2017
Pagination
291‒295
Publisher
Namur-Bruxelles: Agence wallonne du Patrimoine (AWaP); Société royale belge d'Anthropologie et de Préhistoire (SRBAP)
Place of publication
Bruxelles, Belgium
ISSN
1377-5723
Rights statement
In Copyright