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A decade of studying the topography/archaeology/history/geography of the Surrey parish I grew up in has left me with a clutch of discoveries of local and supra-local significance, as well as a host of questions to be answered in the... more
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      ArchaeologyMedieval HistoryAnglo-Saxon StudiesLandscape Archaeology
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Ceramics (Archaeology)Lithics
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      GeoarchaeologyObsidianFlint (Archaeology)Lithic Technology
Clark, P and Rady, J 2008 ‘The Prehistoric Period’, in P Bennett, P Clark, A Hicks and I Riddler, At the Great Crossroads: Prehistoric, Roman, and medieval discoveries on the Isle of Thanet 1994–95, Canterbury Archaeological Trust... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Neolithic Archaeology
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionFlint (Archaeology)• Lithics
In 1904, John Garstang found a group of flint tools in the 1st Dynasty "royal mastaba" at Naqada. The flints predate the 1st Dynasty and are a remarkable example of “heirlooms” in Early Dynastic elite tombs. The carefully selected, high... more
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      Egyptian ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)LithicsPredynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
Mieszkowski Radosław, Welc Fabian, Budziszewski Janusz, Bąkowska Anna
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      Landscape ArchaeologyArchaeological Method & TheoryNeolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)
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      GeographyZooarchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Upper Paleolithic
An assessment of the enormous and well documented flint collection of Jac. Verhagen, a renowned amateur archaeologist in Noord Brabant (NL).

In Dutch.
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      Mesolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)
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      European HistoryEastern European StudiesArchaeologyPrehistoric Archaeology
"The investigations about the exploitation of the abiotic resources during the Gravettian in the Cantabrian Coast are still poorly developed, in general, they are lacking in methods that concentrate on the characteristics of their... more
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      Flint (Archaeology)GravettianGeoarchaeology and Lithic Studies
Trois fenêtres furent ouvertes lors de la fouille couvrant une surface totale de 13 215 m². La fenêtre 1, concentrait la majeure partie des structures archéologiques (quelques unes attribuables au Néolithique récent d’après l’étude... more
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      ArchaeologySedimentologyArchaeozoologyMalacology
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      Palaeolithic ArchaeologyMesolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Orkney and Shetland studies
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      Flint (Archaeology)Flint MiningFlint Raw Material Procurement
Book about the practice of flintknapping featuring: a short introduction about the use of flint in history a lot of descriptions of techniques and strategies, do-it-yourself tipps and tricks, from simple arrow heads up to Danish daggers,... more
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      Experimental ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Flint ToolsFlint Technology
The article presents some new finds of rare flint arrow-head-types from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, mostly dated to late-neolithic beaker-cultures
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyBell Beakers (Archaeology)Flint (Archaeology)Bow and Arrow Technology
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      PaleobotanyPaleoecologyNeolithic ArchaeologyNeolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology
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      Ancient HistoryIrish StudiesArchaeologyPrehistoric Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Neolithic Europe
Bifacial knives are a significant category of artefacts known from ancient Egypt, drawing the attention of researchers since the beginnings of Egyptology. A popular type of knife with a well-defined handle was produced from the Early... more
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      Flint (Archaeology)Old Kingdom (Egyptology)Predynastic and Early Dynastic EgyptAncient Egypt
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      Near Eastern ArchaeologyAnatolian ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)
The archaeologically sudden appearance of Clovis artifacts (13,500–12,500 calibrated years ago) across Pleistocene North America documents one of the broadest and most rapid expansions of any culture known from prehistory. One... more
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      Northeastern North America (Archaeology)ArchaeometryFlint (Archaeology)Paleoindians
Due to airborne laser scanning (ALS, LiDAR), the study of flint mines with anthropogenic mining relief has become easier. In recent years, the Institute of Archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw has been... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyLiDARFlint (Archaeology)
Deutsch / English Die Region Hinteres Kleinwalsertal in Vorarlberg ist geprägt von reichen Silexvorkommen, die bereits in der Mittelsteinzeit für die Rohmaterialversorgung zur Herstellung von Geräten herangezogen wurden. Rote, grüne,... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
Slav population started to systematically settle on the territory of Severskiy Donets middle valley from XVI—XVII centuries. The main part of the population lived in military encampments. The development of the region under permanent... more
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      ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Flintlock FirearmsGunflints History
In September 2008 the Odyssey program started as a joint effort of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the National Centre for Cultural Heritage and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The main aim of this... more
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      Flint (Archaeology)Neolithic flint procurementBandkeramikEarly Neolithic pottery technology
"The megalithic tomb at Montelirio is off the scale in more ways than one. As well as being the largest example of its type known in Spain, the burial goods secreted in its subterranean chambers are unsurpassed in both quantity and... more
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      ReligionArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyArt History
‘Vergeten’ Bandkeramiek Een Odyssee naar de oudste neolithische bewoning in Nederland Ivo van Wijk, Luc Amkreutz en Piet van de Velde Het archeologisch onderzoek in Nederland naar de vroegneolithische Lineaire Bandkeramiek cultuur of... more
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Neolithic EuropeNeolithic flint procurement
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyArchaeological ScienceFlint (Archaeology)Provenance studies of archaeological material
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      ArchaeologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)
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      Landscape ArchaeologyMesolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Mesolithic Europe
A short article on several of the minerals/gemstones that are/have been known as Shaman Stones, such as Hag Stones, Shaman Quartz and Amber...
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      Mythology And FolkloreGeologyMineralogyFolklore
Статья посвящена реконструкции хронографии изучения памятников добычи и первичной кремнеобработки кремня и кварцита на территории Донбасса и окружающих его территорий. Особенности геологической истории обусловили наличие здесь залежей... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyStone Age (Archaeology)Flint (Archaeology)History of Archeology
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Funnel Beaker CultureMegaliths (Archaeology)
Le projet collectif de recherche « Néolithique moyen en Basse-Normandie et dans les îles Anglo-Normandes » a pour but une meilleure compréhension d’une période d’importantes transformations d’ordre socio-économique, technique et culturel... more
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Lithic TechnologyNeolithic Transition
Archaeological testing of Mossy Bluff (1Ct610), a multi-component site above the Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River, in northwest Alabama, has provided a diachronic sample of how knappable stone was procured and used in an area where it... more
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      GeoarchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Southeastern Archaeology (Archaeology in North America)
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      Northeastern North America (Archaeology)Flint (Archaeology)Ancient QuarryingFlintknapping
PhD Dissertation
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Stone tools
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)
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      Native American StudiesIconographyEthnographyMississippian Societies (Archaeology)
The Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic transition of the Levant has attracted much attention, particularly because the early Middle Paleolithic is the period when the earliest anatomically modern humans fossils known to date in Eurasia have been... more
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      Flint (Archaeology)Syrian HistoryPrihistori Mesopotamia
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      GeoarchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Paleolithic EuropeUpper Paleolithic
This volume is dedicated to the 60th birthday anniversary of Igor Vasilyevich Manzura, leading Moldovan archaeologist and specialist in prehistory of South-Eastern Europe, Professor of the High Anthropological School University, member... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreHistorical DemographyEthnographyAnthropology Of Dance
This thesis examines a little understood aspect of Dynastic Egypt—that of the ideology of flint. Ideology is defined as the way flint is thought of rather than used. This study is unique in examining long term chronological changes in... more
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      Egyptian ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Egyptian religionEgyptian Ritual Texts
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      EgyptologyEgyptian Art and ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Afterlife studies
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Flint (Archaeology)Funnel Beaker CultureNeolithic Europe
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      Mesolithic ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Baltic archaeology
"This book presents the papers and discussions held at the second meeting of the European Megalithic Studies Group (Seville, Spain, November 2008). This is therefore a cooperative, international book that brings together leading... more
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      ReligionHistoryArchaeologyPrehistoric Archaeology
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyGeologyGeochemistryFlint (Archaeology)
The Seine-Yonne sector occupies a special place in our knowledge of Neolithic societies. Although an interface between the southern and north-eastern branches, it is also the exclusive preserve of chalk flint. Applying the « technological... more
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Lithic TechnologyFlint Mining