| Title: |
A strategy for raw materials
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| Issue: |
Towards a research agenda for Welsh archaeology: |
| Series: |
British Archaeological Reports
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| Volume: |
343
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| Number of Pages: |
225 |
| Page Start/End: |
201 - 211 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
MonographSeriesChapter
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| Abstract: |
a limited range of the raw materials available for building and making artefacts and ornaments in historic and prehistoric Wales are discussed. Questions are posed about the quality of provenancing methodologies related to the availability, procurement and quality of: flint, axe-making stones, amber and jet-like materials, metal ores and some building stone. Particular attention is drawn to the value of sampling geologically recycled deposits to help understand their use as a resource in antiquity. The practices of using bog timber and peat on habitation sites, and in historical mining and metallurgy are noted and their potential to provide anachronous dates from excavations is explained. It is argued that the combination of context-documented culturally diagnostic artefacts from excavated sites with at least one form of laboratory dating may offer more secure chronologies for some early site types than do exclusive forms like radiocarbon dating. The author also argues that archaeologists and the public should be encouraged to collect materials from geological milieux to help create comprehensive reference collections and gazetteers for visual comparison with artefacts and for laboratory provenancing studies |
| Year of Publication: |
2003
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| ISBN: |
1 84171 479 8 |
| Subjects / Periods: |
| Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Artefacts (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Jetlike Materials Metal (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Radiocarbon Dating (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Flint (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Timber (Auto Detected Subject) |
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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| Created Date: |
07 Dec 2005 |
