Quarries and mines in social context

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.

• Chapter 1. IntroductionBerit Valentin Eriksen, Lynn E. FisherChapter 2. Of pits and pitfalls. Neolithic flint mining in the province of Limburg (the Netherlands) between ca. 5300 and ca. 2600 BCEMarjorie E. Th. de GroothChapter 3. Socio-economic patterns evolution as exemplified by flints procurement: from Early to Middle Neolithic in western BelgiumJean-Philippe Collin, Solène DenisChapter 4. Specialisation of production, specialisation of space: changes and continuities in the territorial and socio-economic patterns of Bartonian flint production in northern France 5000–3800 BCEFrançoise BostynChapter 5. Copper and flint, business cycles and the conditions of knowledge transmission: a demographic explanationTim KerigChapter 6. Beyond mines and quarries – lithic raw material supply and circulation during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in the Rhineland and BavariaSilviane Scharl, Birgit Gehlen, Jehanne Affolter, Anna-Leena Fischer, Alexander Kisslinger, Stefan SuhrbierChapter 7. Exploring lithic production strategies at a Neolithic chert quarry in southwest Germany: intra-quarry variation at Asch-BorgerhauLynn E. Fisher, Susan K. Harris, Corina Knipper, Rainer SchregChapter 8. Neolithic silicite procurement in the Alpine Foreland from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BCE – a case study from the Zurich regionKurt Altorfer, Jehanne AffolterChapter 9. The mining of Vienna Radiolarite – new perspectives on lithic resource management at the eastern fringe of the AlpsMichael Brandl, Oliver Schmitsberger, Martin PenzChapter 10. Flint supply and access in prehistoric HungaryKatalin T. BiróChapter 11. Non-siliceous rocks in the context of prehistoric mining in the territory of the Czech RepublicPavel Burgert, Antonín PřichystalChapter 12. Mining, use, and distribution of chocolate flint among Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in eastern Central EuropeDagmara H. WerraChapter 13. Western European Late Neolithic battle axes and their meaning for the reconstruction of enduring socio-spatial patternsSebastian SchultrichChapter 14. A diachronic perspective on the mass production of flint tools in early metal using societies. Addressing the evidence of flint mines in Neolithic and Bronze Age DenmarkBerit Valentin Eriksen