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Written in stone : papers on the function, form, and provenancing of prehistoric stone objects in memory of Fiona Roe /

Prehistoric Britain has generated an enormous number and wide variety of stone objects, but few books deal specifically with stone tools that are not flint. This book brings together papers from 22 of the United Kingdom's archaeologists investigating the stone objects that were fundamental to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Roe, Fiona, Shaffrey, Ruth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St Andrews, UK : Highfield Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Stone implements > Great Britain.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication to Fiona Roe / Nath Alcock, Fenella Heckscher, Ruth Shaffrey and Katharine Walker
  • Introduction : the history of stone artefact studies / Fiona Roe
  • Process, form and time : maceheads in an Orcadian context / Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Ann Clarke, Mark Edmonds and Antonia Thomas
  • Cornish axe groupings, not Cornish axe factories : new work on sourcing of Neolithic stone axes in Cornwall / Andy M. Jones, Henrietta Quinnell and Roger Taylor
  • A critical review of Group IV implements and sources : fact and opinion / Vin Davis
  • North Roes felstie and Shetland's felsite material culture / Torben Ballin
  • Stone battle axe production in Yorkshire / Terry Manby
  • Sizing up Neolithic saddle querns / John Cruse
  • The significance of quernstones : defining bell beaker 'domestic burials' at Amesbury Down, Wiltshire / Alistair Barclay and Pippa Bradley
  • The quernstones of Glastonbury and Meare / Susan Watts
  • 'The famous volcanic rock of the Eifel' / Andrew Fitzpatrick
  • The beach as source and destination / Richard Bradley
  • A re-investigation of British stone 'loomweights' / Ruth Shaffrey
  • Towards a methodology for the study of prehistoric jet and jet-like jewellery / Alison Sheridan
  • Polissoirs : social memory in the Avebury landscape / Michele Drisse
  • More than 'other stone' : new methods to analyse prehistoric chalk artefacts / Anne Teather
  • Beaker-age bracers made from Langdale rock : the new find from Cranbrook, Devon in context / Fiona Roe and Ann Woodward.