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Lithics 20
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Lithics 20
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Lithics
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20
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72
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Philippa J Bradley
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1999
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Editorial Expansion: Lithic Studies Society Newsletter 20
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18 Dec 2014
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New Lower Palaeolithic Finds in Norfolk
R J MacRae
3 - 9
This paper concerns the rescue in the late 1990s of around 350 Lower Palaeolithic artefacts from piles of rejected stones at two sand and gravel quarries in Norfolk, while commercial extraction was taking place. The context of the search, in an area where other gravel pits had previously been investigated, is explained, and the geological and geomorphological background is outlined. The finds themselves are then discussed; recovered artefacts have included various types of handaxes, and Levallois and Acheulian cores and flakes. LD
Classic Blade Core from Lincolnshire
T W Bee
11
Describes and illustrates an Upper Palaeolithic blade core found during fieldwalking in the parish of Salmonby, Lincolnshire. The amount of workable flint left on the nodule suggests that this core had been lost rather than thrown away. LD
The Opportunistic Exploitation of Flint at Easter Hatton, Aberdeenshire
Caroline R Wickham-Jones
Timothy G Holden
23 - 29
Evaluation of land at Easter Hatton, Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire revealed a surface scatter of struck flints on a small knoll. Although the evaluation suggested that archaeological features were present, subsequent excavation revealed no reliable evidence for structures likely to have been contemporary with the flints. Detailed excavation of the flint scatter area yielded 446 pieces of flaked stone. The finds are discussed in detail, looking at the raw material, technology and knapping techniques and the composition of the assemblage. It is considered likely that the site has evidence for tool use as well as for manufacture and that the assemblage was very specialised. A Bronze Age date is suggested, although this cannot be accepted without qualification. LD
Pulling back the covers on sleeping stones; recent excavations in the Beckhampton Avenue, Aveb...
Joshua Pollard
Mark Gillings
David Wheatley
30 - 31
Discusses the history of the sarsen stones that were paired to form the Beckhampton Avenue, a processional avenue that ran from the western entrance of the late Neolithic henge monument at Avebury in Wiltshire. Some of the stones were buried during the medieval period, whilst many others were broken up for building stone in the 17th and 18th centuries. Of three buried sarsens recently excavated at Beckhampton, one contained several natural perforations into which objects had been placed, whilst its 'pair' showed surface features resulting from utilisation of the stone for the grinding and polishing of stone axes. Such 'polishing' events may have been of great antiquity by the time the stones at Avebury and Beckhampton were chosen and set up, and serve to further highlight their complex history. LD
The Transfer of Stone Artefacts from the Geological Museum to the British Museum
Alison Roberts
49 - 56
The collection of stone artefacts previously held by the British Museum (Natural History), originally held by the British Geological Survey, has recently been transferred to the British Museum. The background to the collection and acquisition of the material is outlined, including discussion of the historic debate on 'eoliths' '“ regarding the human versus natural origin of shaped stones '“ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The material itself is then broadly summarised in relation to geographic area (England, the rest of Britain, and the rest of the world), with the English material further subdivided into chronological period owing to its predominance in the collection. LD
Appendix 1; The McKenny Hughes Exhibition
54 - 55
Catalogue of largely unpublished lithic material donated to the Geological Museum in the 1860s by Professor T McKenny Hughes with the purpose of displaying both natural forms and worked artefact types, and where the morphology of both overlaps. LD
Appendix 2; The Non-European Archaeological Material in the Ge...
55 - 56
Catalogue of artefacts in the Geological Museum collection that are from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australasia and the Americas. LD
Flint Use in Later Bronze Age and Iron Age England -- Still a Fiction?
Jodie Humphrey
Robert Young
57 - 61
This article challenges the notion that flint-working disappeared from archaeological view at the end of the Bronze Age. Some of the factors that can lead to the classification of flint from post-Middle Bronze Age contexts as 'residual' are outlined, and a range of criteria developed by the authors for the study and identification of later lithic material are presented. It is suggested that it was in the domestic sphere that lithic utilisation went on the longest, continuing well into the Iron Age in certain areas; this argument is set into context by considering the processes involved in the 'replacement' of stone tools by metal artefacts. LD