Erratics and Re-cycled Stone: scholarly irrelevancies or fundamental utilities to lithic studies in prehistoric Britain and beyond?

Erratics and Re-cycled Stone: scholarly irrelevancies or fundamental utilities to lithic studies in prehistoric Britain and beyond?

There are many theories explaining later prehistoric 'trade' and 'exchange systems' in stone artefacts. Evidence matching the petrographic information of transported implements with the country rock (local bedrock) where 'factories' produced flaked stone axes is felt to...

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Main Author: C. Stephen Briggs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2009-09-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
archaeology
glacial erratic
implement petrography
determinism
prehistoric scavenging economies
geological education
Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue26/briggs_index.html

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