skip to navigation
ADS Main Website
Help
|
Login
/
Browse by Series
/
Series
/ Journal Issue
Lithics 10
Title
The title of the publication or report
Title:
Lithics 10
Series
The series the publication or report is included in
Series:
Lithics
Volume
Volume number and part
Volume:
10
Publication Type
The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book
Publication Type:
Journal
Year of Publication
The year the book, article or report was published
Year of Publication:
1989
Note
Extra information on the publication or report.
Note:
Date Of Issue From: 1989
Source
Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in.
Source:
BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
Created Date
The date the record of the pubication was first entered
Created Date:
05 Dec 2008
Please click on an Article link to go to the Article Details.
Article Title
Access Type
Author / Editor
Page
Start/End
Abstract
Hand-axes of andesitic tuff from beneath the standard Wolstonian Succession in Warwickshire
F W Shotton
John J Wymer
1 - 7
Publishes three large hand-axes, a modified quartzite pebble, and a quartzite flake from Waverley Wood Farm Pit, Bubbenhall, Warks. Their importance lies in their unequivocal position beneath in situ boulder clay and in their virtually mint condition. Typologically they are Acheulian.
Recent finds from Rainbow Bar and some thoughts on site formation
A John Schofield
9 - 15
Further collection at the well-known site at Hill Head, Hants (below Mean Low Water) produced a hand-axe, flakes, and a core, all having much in common with the Draper collection of 1951. The flint was being obtained locally. Comments are made on site formation, in relation to Schick's work on the effect of fluvial action on archaeological sites.
The Skaill knife as a butchering tool
Ann Clarke
16 - 27
Experiments by a professional butcher, somewhat reluctantly persuaded to try out flakes of 'Skaill knife' type, proved the versatility and effectiveness of this tool; various butchery processes were performed on portions of deer and beef, and a sheep's carcase was skinned. This preliminary work has suggested some aspects for more rigorous examination.
Fieldwalking with a compass
John Bateman
28 - 32
Defines several fieldwalking methods and their problems before advocating the prismatic compass method for use in low-yield lithics surveys. The method relies on sighting back to a baseline from any position in the survey area and is illustrated from work done in the Howardian Hills of Yorkshire.
The Fenland Project
Andrew G Brown
Frances Healy
33 - 43
The first author asks (with reference to Isleham material) 'Use-wear analysis of surface material - can it really be done?' and concludes that use-damage does often survive ploughing and may with care be examined by low-power microscopy. The second author in 'The Norfolk peat fens: an extensive view' attempts a broad macroscopic assessment of the 15 500 pieces of worked flint and stone collected from 370 sites: results are discussed in terms of settlement distribution, raw material, and fine objects. The amount of cortex cover is analysed and the apparent absence of floorstone flint investigated. There is a strong impression that flint was obtained at marginal cost in the course of normal traffic from flint area to fen edge.
Lithics and Early Neolithic enclosures
Bob Middleton
Andrew G Brown
Peter S Bellamy
Mark Edmonds
44 - 51
Accounts are given of research on assemblages from causewayed enclosures. Bob Middleton describes 'Middle Neolithic lithic technology at the Etton causewayed enclosure', using modes of flaking and metrical data to arrive at some conclusions on raw material acquisition and use. Andy Brown looks at 'The social life of flint at Neolithic Hembury' using material from the Liddell excavations: he concludes that Hembury was not involved in far-flung exchange, nor is there good evidence for warfare, though there is some evidence for symbolic deposition at the S tip of the site. The third note is on 'Maiden Castle' where both axe production and flake- and blade-manufacture from local material are in evidence.
Exit, pursued by colleagues
Frances Healy
52 - 53
A departing editor offers some thoughts on the future of lithic studies, with a particular appeal for broad, holistic views of the material subjected to microwear analysis, and also for clear and effective use of the English language in which to express one's findings.
