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Mining and materiality : : neolithic chalk artefacts and their depositional contexts in southern Britain / / Anne M. Teather.

In this book Anne Teather develops a new approach to understanding the Neolithic flint mines of southern Britain.

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VerfasserIn:	Teather, Anne M.,
Place / Publishing House:	Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,, [2016] ©2016
Year of Publication:	2016
Edition:	1st ed.
Language:	English
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 114 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Mining and Materiality
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Aims of this Study
1.3 Outline of the Argument
1.4 Flint Mines and Materiality
Chapter 2
Situating Flint Mines in Neolithic Studies
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Mining on Different Geology
2.3 Tracing Functional Interpretations
2.4 Axes: Product and Purpose?
2.5 An Overview of Sites Studied
2.6 The Context and Location of Mines
2.7 Chronology
2.8 Deposition and Art at Flint Mines
2.9 Conclusion
Figure 2.1 Map of southern England showing the location of Neolithic flint mines
Figure 2.2 Recalibrated radiocarbon dates from Neolithic Langdale axe quarries (after Bradley and Edmonds 1993: 81 [Thunacar Knott BM 676, 4474 +/- 52], 113 [Stake Beck OXA-2181, 4790 +/- 50] 116 [Harrison Stickle BM 2625, 4870 +/- 50], 117 [Harrison Stic
Figure 2.3 Plan of Easton Down (redrawn from Stone 1931: 351)
Figure 2.4 Plan of Long Down (redrawn from Russell 2000: 82)
Figure 2.5 Plan of Harrow Hill (redrawn from Russell 2000: 76)
Figure 2.6 Plan of Grimes Graves (redrawn from Longworth and Varndell 1991: front pull out)
Figure 2.7 Plan of Stoke Down (redrawn from Barber et al. 1999: 59)
Figure 2.8 Plan of Martin's Clump (redrawn from Barber et al. 1999: 36)
Figure 2.9 Plan of Cissbury (redrawn from Barber et al. 1999: 29)
Figure 2.10 Plan of Blackpatch (redrawn from Pull in Russell 2001: 25-6)
Figure 2.11 Plan of Church Hil (redrawn from Pull in Russell 2001: 88)
Figure 2.12 Table of possible number of shafts or pits at each site (after Barber et al. 1999)
Figure 2.13 Table of approximate depth of shafts at each site (data summarised from Russell 2000: 70-84).
Figure 2.14 Recalibrated radiocarbon dates from Neolithic flint mines (Barber et al. 81-2
Calibrated using OXCAL v.4.2, IntCal 13, Bronk Ramsay 2009)
Figure 2.15 Table of suggested chronological activity at mine sites
Chapter 3
Addressing Functionality with Materiality and Phenomenology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 A History of Artefact Studies
3.3 Defining Archaeological Artefacts and their Ambiguity
3.4 Theoretical Basis of this Study: Integrating Materiality and Personhood
3.5 Applying Structured Deposition
3.6 Methodology
3.7 Conclusion
Chapter 4
Non-Portable Chalk: Art and Artefacts
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Chalk Art as Functional and Non-Functional Evidence
4.3 Considering Chalk Art and Deposits as Artefacts
4.4 Chalk Art in the Flint Mines
4.5 Comparisons with Contemporary Monuments
4.6 Understanding Chalk Art and Non-Portable Artefacts in the Neolithic
4.7 Conclusion
Figure 4.1 No 2 Escarpment Shaft, Cissbury (after Lane Fox 1876). Scoring was at the entrance of the south gallery and a lattice pattern at the entrance of the west gallery. A double cross and associated 'pick hole' were found on the south wall of an inne
Figure 4.2 Shaft 27, Cissbury (after Russell 2001, 112
170). Art was present 15 feet (4.58m) down on the shaft wall to the east, a metre above the shaft floor at 18 feet (5.5m) and opposite the skeleton (found in the west gallery), though this was not il
Figure 4.3 The Cissbury cave pit complex art (after Barber et al. 1999: 50)
© English Heritage. A reversed numerical '4' with an additional vertical line was in Shaft I above the entrance to the east gallery yet within the gallery itself and 2 feet 6 inc
Figure 4.4 The Cissbury cave pit complex, architectural features (after Barber et al. 1999: 51
Shaft approximate scale, art not to scale).
Figure 4.5 Harrow Hill Shaft 21/13 Complex (after Barber et al. 1999: 51
Curwen and Curwen 1926
McNabb et al. 1996). © English Heritage. A total of seven examples of chalk art were found in Shaft 21 (after Curwen and Curwen 1926: 121. 126). Graffiti 7 w
Figure 4.6 Photograph of chalk block from Harrow Hill (photograph author
Figure 4.7 Table of flint mine shafts with art
Figure 4.8 Photograph of The Trundle chalk ammonite (photograph author
©Lewes Museum)
Figure 4.9 Photograph of The Trundle incised block (photograph author
Figure 4.10 Table of art and decorated blocks within Neolithic monuments contemporary to the flint mines
Figure 4.11 Table of the types of decoration on deposited chalk blocks
Figure 4.12 Photograph of the Fyfield Down polissoir (photograph author)
Figure 4.13 Photographs of polissoirs at Lewes Museum, LM1 above, LM2 below (photographs author
Figure 4.14 Location of polissoirs at West Kennet (after Piggott 1962
approximate scale)
Chapter 5
Portable Chalk Artefacts
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Emerging Understandings: A History of Portable Chalk Artefacts
5.3 Structuring Typology: Adding Categorisation
5.4. Chalk Artefact Typology and Categorisation
5.5 Including Portable Chalk Artefacts from Mines with Comparable Forms
5.6 Chalk Artefact Forms in Regional Context
5.7 Understanding Portable Chalk Artefacts
5.8 Conclusion
Figure 5.1 Table summarising Varndell's (1991:100-3) suggested typology for chalk objects
Figure 5.2 Table summarising the revised chalk typology
Figure 5.3 Table of Varndell's (1991) categories, with those altered within Figure 5.4 in bold.
Figure 5.4 Table of recategorised artefacts following Figure 5.2
Figure 5.5 Table summarising the numbers of chalk artefacts in the mines
Figure 5.6 Photograph of Blackpatch chalk axe (photograph author
Figure 5.7 Photograph of Cissbury Shaft 27 burial charms (photograph author
Figure 5.8 Photographs of chalk cylinders from Blackpatch (photograph author
Figure 5.9 Photograph of Church Hill chalk disc (photograph author
Figure 5.10 Photograph of The Lavant Drum (photograph author
Figure 5.11 Photographs of Church Hill plaque surface (left) and base (right) (photograph author
Figure 5.12 Photographs of Church Hill plaque sides where ochre slip can be seen (photograph author
Figure 5.13 Table of mining sites with early-mid Neolithic chalk artefacts
Figure 5.14 Table of mining sites with mid-late Neolithic chalk artefacts
Figure 5.15 Table of chalk artefacts in contemporary early-mid Neolithic monuments
Figure 5.16 Table of chalk artefacts in contemporary early Neolithic long barrows
Figure 5.17 Table of chalk artefacts in contemporary late Neolithic to early Bronze Age monuments
Figure 5.18 Table illustrating a chronology of chalk artefacts in Neolithic Britain
Figure 5.19 Chart comparing chalk artefact types at different Early Neolithic monuments
Figure 5.20 Chart comparing chalk artefact types between later Neolithic monuments
Chapter 6
Natural Objects to Cultural Artefacts
6.1 Introduction
6.2. Reconsidering Animal and Human Remains
6.3 Expanding Contexts: Creating Artefacts.
6.4 Excavated Artefacts
6.5 Transformed Artefacts
6.6 Aesthetic Deposits: Two Examples
6.7 A Special Case: Human Genital Forms and Mutable Substances
6.8 Conclusion
Figure 6.1 Photograph of flint nodule resembling a cat skull, Blackpatch 2005 (photograph author)
Figure 6.2 Photograph of Cissbury Shaft 27 flint/fossil phallus (now lost
photograph courtesy of David Field)
Figure 6.3 Photograph of phallic grouping from Durrington Walls (photograph Mike Parker Pearson)
Figure 6.4 Photograph of assorted fossils from Pull's excavations (photograph author
Figure 6.5 Photograph of fossils from Pull's excavations (photograph author
Figure 6.6 Table of the deposits of fossil, antler and animal bone from the flint mine shafts
Figure 6.7 Table of Neolithic and Bronze Age phalli (adapted from Teather 2007)
Chapter 7
Beyond Extraction
7.1 Introduction
7.2 This Study
7.3 Expanding Interpretations
7.4 Negotiating Presence
Bibliography
Andersen, S. 1989. Norsminde. A køkkenmødding with late Mesolithic and early Neolithic occupation. Journal of Danish Archaeology 8: 13-40.
Index.

Mining and materiality : : neolithic chalk artefacts and their depositional contexts in southern Britain / / Anne M. Teather.

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