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Cambridge Archaeol J 17 (3)
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Cambridge Archaeol J 17 (3)
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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17 (3)
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John Robb
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Cambridge University Press
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2007
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07 Dec 2007
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Minerals, metal, colours and landscape: Exmoor's Roman Lode in the Early Bronze Age
Gillian Juleff
Lee Bray
285 - 296
Outcrops of metallic mineralization were potentially prominent locations in past landscapes, the characteristics of their constituent minerals granting them distinctive appearances and properties. The article examines new evidence for Early Bronze Age activity at Roman Lode, a predominantly iron-rich ore deposit on Exmoor in southwest Britain. In addition to assessing whether this represents metal exploitation, other interpretive avenues are explored including the potential role of the site as a provider of other resources such as pigments and quartz and as an element in a wider conceptual and physical landscape. A layered approach to the interpretation of such sites is advocated. It is argued that only by combining a cognitive interpretation with materialist perspectives will it be possible to arrive at a more insightful understanding of the past significance of minerals, mining and landscape.
Middle Palaeolithic scraper morphology, flaking mechanics and imposed form: revisiting Bisson's `Interview with a Neanderthal'
Gilliane F Monnier
341 - 350
The study presents evidence to indicate that the `scraper production rules' proposed by M Bisson in 2001 are not, in fact, the rules according to which Neanderthals made their tools, but instead reflect flaking mechanics and elements of Bisson's experimental design rather than any functional considerations taken into account during scraper manufacture. Furthermore, it is argued that methodological flaws in Bisson's analysis of Middle Palaeolithic artefacts undermine his arguments that archaeological scrapers either follow or violate the rules, and that these problems render untenable his conclusion that Neanderthals did not have mental templates and that they lacked flexibility and innovation in stone-tool making.