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Flint was a vitally important resource for prehistoric societies who put it to a diverse range of uses. Chris Butler has created a concise guide to recognising and categorising British prehistoric flintwork. The author begins by looking at the different sources of flint that were exploited by prehistoric peoples, and explains why flint was such a widely used raw material. He then discusses how to recognise prehistoric worked flint and explores the different technologies that were used to work flint to make tools. Flintknapping techniques used in each period of prehistory are illustrated, along with detailed descriptions of the variety of implements produced and their associated diagnostic waste material. The flintwork from a number of case-study cites is reviewed to understand how and where flint was procured, the types of tools found on settlement, manufacturing and ritual sites and the eventual decline in the importance of flint. The book also explores what the analysis of flintwork can tell us about society and past use of the landscape.
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Chris Butler is a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and a committee member of the Lithic Studies Society. he has directed numerous excavations and has analysed flintwork from many projects in South-East England. He is a part-time lecturer at the University of Sussex and teaches A-Level Archaeology.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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When you consider what an important subject, archaeologically, the study of prehistoric lithic technology is, it's amazing that there isn't another comparable handbook available. The reason, I suspect is that very few people have acquired such detailed knowledge of the subject from a practical point of view.
Chris Butler is a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and a lecturer at the University of Sussex. He is an expert on flint implements, especially in South East England.
His book is a practical manual and the best I know for learning about and identifying flint tools. I unhesitatingly recommend it as the one book that everyone interested in studying or collecting stone age flint tools should have.
There are individual chapters on the human use of flint, tool types commonly encountered in the field, then chapters on the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, detailing the flint tools and weapons characteristic of each. The Neolithic warrant three chapters.
There is also an important final chapter on analysing flint tools, which points out that many archaeologists are still sceptical about using flint as a dating tool. The merest scrap of pottery will be examined in minute detail and made the centre of excavation reports, while flint - which tends to survive very well - is given second place partly because of its abundance and hence its commonplace nature.
`It's only in recent years,' says Butler, `that the study of debitage and manufacturing technologies has meant that lithic specialists have been able to provide much more information. Other archaeologists have not yet caught onto this, and thus flintwork remains the poor relation.'
This book goes a long way to redress that imbalance and should be required reading for every archaeology student.
Chris Butler is a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and a lecturer at the University of Sussex. He is an expert on flint implements, especially in South East England.
His book is a practical manual and the best I know for learning about and identifying flint tools. I unhesitatingly recommend it as the one book that everyone interested in studying or collecting stone age flint tools should have.
There are individual chapters on the human use of flint, tool types commonly encountered in the field, then chapters on the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, detailing the flint tools and weapons characteristic of each. The Neolithic warrant three chapters.
There is also an important final chapter on analysing flint tools, which points out that many archaeologists are still sceptical about using flint as a dating tool. The merest scrap of pottery will be examined in minute detail and made the centre of excavation reports, while flint - which tends to survive very well - is given second place partly because of its abundance and hence its commonplace nature.
`It's only in recent years,' says Butler, `that the study of debitage and manufacturing technologies has meant that lithic specialists have been able to provide much more information. Other archaeologists have not yet caught onto this, and thus flintwork remains the poor relation.'
This book goes a long way to redress that imbalance and should be required reading for every archaeology student.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Any one with half an interest in prehistoric Flintwork must have this in their collection. Wether you are student or professional buy this and you will not be disappointed.
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Purchased as a gift and valued for the 2nd year archological student. I understand that it `does what it says on the tin'.
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