Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Quarries and mines in social context

Connecting patterns of change in Neolithic cultural landscapes

Av Berit Valentin Eriksen, Lynn E. Fisher

1959 kr

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Flint mines and quarries are a widespread phenomenon in the European Neolithic, but are difficult to characterise and to connect to broader sociocultural developments due to challenges of recognition and dating, and to a great diversity of practices across regions and time periods. Neolithic mines and quarries vary greatly in intensity, chronology, and duration of exploitation. Investigations across Europe also reveal varied spatial scales of distribution, production of prestige objects as well as items for everyday use, and widely varying functional and social contexts in which extracted stone is used.The present volume brings together papers that address regional case studies in the context of broader sociocultural landscapes. As such, it explores the variability in mines and quarries in several regions of Neolithic Europe, with a focus on detecting and understanding changes in raw material extraction, related production activities, forms of specialisation or task differentiation, and/or linkages to other locales in technological and social networks. The 14 papers by leading researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge concerning various flint mining and quarrying sites in Central Europe, as well as potential avenues for understanding raw material extraction in relation to other patterns of socio-economic change across national, regional and disciplinary boundaries. The volume originates from a workshop held at Kiel University in 2022 under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1266) “Scales of Transformation – Human-Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies”.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-05
Mått: 210 x 280 x undefined mm
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 420
Förlag: Sidestone Press
ISBN: 9789464271683

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Berit V. Eriksen is senior researcher at the Museum for Archaeology, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, and Honorary Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology at Kiel University. She lectures on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology. She is a PI of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation: Human–Environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’ (CRC 1266, financed by the German Research Foundation/DFG) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Roots’ at Kiel University. She has published various articles and books about the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers as well as flint technology and she is currently particularly interested in the use of flint and stone in early metal using societies, including not least the Bronze Age of Scandinavia. Lynn E. Fisher is Professor for Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Illinois Springfield. A primary focus of her research is on social change and technology in early Stone Age farming societies in southern Germany. Her archaeological fieldwork in southern Germany has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation and the National Science Foundation. In autumn 2021, she joined Kiel University as a Mercator fellow invited by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation”. During her stay in Kiel she collaborated intensively with Berit V. Eriksen to plan and organise an international workshop on “Quarries and mines in social context. Connecting patterns of change in Neolithic cultural landscapes”. The proceedings is forthcoming/published with Sidestone Press.

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