Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe

Introduction ;


About the beginnings of prehistoric archaeology, studies of stone artifacts and ancient flint mines - Francoise Bostyn, Jacek Lech and Dagmara H. Werra ;



Part I: Key Sites of Prehistoric Flint Mining in Europe ;


Chapter 1: The Early Neolithic mine of Defensola and the Gargano Promontory (Italy) - Attilio Galiberti and Massimo Tarantini ;


Chapter 2: The mining complex at Rijckholt-St Geertruid (Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg NL) - Marjorie E. Th. de Grooth , Jos Deeben*, Jan Willem de Kort and Jose Schreurs ;


Chapter 3: The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes (Belgium) - Helene Collet and Jean-Philippe Collin ;


Chapter 4: Grime's Graves (England) - Frances Healy, Peter Topping and Gillian Varndell ;



Part II: Some other European Flint Mines ;


Chapter 5: The Flint Mine of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain) Making Society in Early Neolithic Europe - Pedro Diaz-del-Rio, Susana Consuegra, Nuria Castaneda, Enrique Capdevila, Marta Capote, Cristina Criado, Cristina Casas and Aurora Nieto ;


Chapter 6: The Chocolate Flint Mine of Tomaszow (Poland) - Romuald Schild ;


Chapter 7: Saspow near Cracow (Poland). A Neolithic flint mine of the Danubian communities - Jacek Lech ;


Chapter 8: Neolithic Chert Extraction and Processing on the Southeastern Swabian Alb (Asch-Borgerhau, Germany) - Lynn E. Fisher, Corina Knipper, Susan K. Harris and Rainer Schreg ;


Chapter 9: The Late Neolithic opencast flint mining and axehead blank production on the Lousberg in Aachen (Germany) - Daniel Schyle and Juergen Weiner ;


Chapter 10: The Nagytevel flint mine (Hungary) - Katalin T. Biro and Judit Regenye ;


Chapter 11: Flintmining at Soedra Sallerup (Sweden) - Elisabeth Rudebeck, Anders Hoegberg, Deborah Olausson in cooperation with Asa Berggren ;


Chapter 12: Cissbury and the South Downs Flint Mines, Sussex (England) - David Field ;


Chapter 13: The neolithic flint mine at Jablines, 'le Haut-Chateau' (Seine-et-Marne, France) - Francoise Bostyn ;


Chapter 14: The Flint Mine of Ri-Ronai (Orne, Basse-Normandie, France) - Emmanuel Ghesquiere, Cyril Marcigny with the collaboration of Francois Charraud, David Giazzon, Sebastien Giazzon, and Laurent Juhel ;


Chapter 15: The Neolithic quarries at Plancher-les-Mines (Haute-Saone, France), 5th and 4th millennia cal BC- Pierre Petrequin ;


Chapter 16: 'Les Orlets' and 'Le Grand Bois Marot' at Villemaur-sur-Vanne (Aube): face to face in the Pays d'Othe mining complex - Pierre-Arnaud de Labriffe ;


Chapter 17: Borownia (Poland). A mine of striped flint from the Early Bronze Age - Jacek Lech ;


Chapter 18: Wierzbica ?Zele? (Poland). A flint mine from the Bronze Age - Jacek Lech and Dagmara H. Werra