Catherine Frieman - Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe

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Flint daggers in prehistoric Europe / edited by Catherine J. Frieman and Berit Valentin Eriksen. -- Hardcover edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-78570-018-7 (hardback)

1. Weapons, Prehistoric--Europe. 2. Daggers--Europe. 3. Stone age--Europe. 4. Europe--Antiquities. I. Frieman, Catherine, 1982-editor, author. II. Eriksen, Berit Valentin, editor, author.

GN799.W3F55 2015

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2015031209

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Front cover: Two type IV flint daggers with fishtail shaped hilt. Holstein-Rathlou collection, Moesgaard Museum, Denmark. Photo Rgvi N. Johansen, foto/medie Moesgaard, on a background showing a cache of reproduction flint daggers made by Pete Bostrom (copyright Pete Bostrom, Lithic Casting Lab. Inc. reproduced by permission)

CONTENTS

Catherine J. Frieman & Berit Valentin Eriksen

Thomas Zimmermann

Carolyn Graves-Brown

Denis Guilbeau

Daniel Steiniger

Ewen Ihuel, Jacques Pelegrin, Nicole Mallet & Christain Verjux

Annelou van Gijn

Erik Drenth

Jeanette Varberg

Catherine J. Frieman

Witold Grud, Witold Migal & Katarzyna Pyewicz

Antonn Pichystal & Lubomr ebela

Shinya Shoda

Catherine J. Frieman

CONTRIBUTORS

ERIK DRENTH

Erik Drenth graduated in 1988 from the State University of Groningen after having written an MA thesis about the social organisation of the Single Grave Culture in the Netherlands. Subsequently, he was employed by the State Service for Archaeological Investigations in the Netherlands. There, he was as a specialist in prehistory involved in the development of a computerised national archaeological database. As a prehistorian and quality manager, respectively, Drenth participated in project teams directing large-scale investigations in the central and southern Netherlands. At present, he works as a senior archaeologist and specialist in flint and prehistoric pottery in the Dutch archaeological firm ArcheoMedia.

BERIT VALENTIN ERIKSEN

Berit Valentin Eriksen is research director at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA). She lectures on Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology as a privatdozent at the University of Kiel and as a Professor II at the University of Bergen. She is also a specialist in flint technology and particularly interested in the use of lithics in the Bronze Age societies of Scandinavia.

CATHERINE J. FRIEMAN

Catherine Frieman is a lecturer in European archaeology at the Australian National University. She first wrote about flint daggers as an undergraduate and went on to study the fishtail daggers of Late Neolithic Scandinavia as part of her University of Oxford DPhil research into the process of metal adoption in Europe. Aside from flint daggers, her research interests include the nature of archaeological inquiry, innovation, skeuomorphism, and the beginning of the metal ages, as well as Neolithic and Bronze Age beads and personal ornamentation.

CAROLYN GRAVES-BROWN

Carolyn Graves-Brown gained a BA Hons. in archaeology from Durham University in 1983. She has curated collections in several museums and, in 1997, took up her present post as curator of the Egypt Centre, the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities at Swansea University. This sparked an interest in Egyptian Dynastic lithics. In 2011, she gained a PhD as a part-time student at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London for her thesis on The Ideological Significance of Flint in Dynastic Egypt. She is a member of the Lithics Study Society and now lives with her husband and two greyhounds in Llanelli.

WITOLD GRUD

Witold Grud is a PhD student in the department of History and Social Science at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyski University in Warsaw (Poland). His research focuses on bifacial technology during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC in one of the flint-rich regions in southeastern Poland. He is the author of two peer-reviewed papers on Swiderian and Magdalenian blade debitage techniques.

DENIS GUILBEAU

Denis Guilbeau completed a PhD in 2010 on specialised lithic production during the Neolithic and the Eneolithic in Italy. He is a specialist in flint knapping techniques and their social implications. His main areas of study cover the central (Italy) and eastern (western Turkey) Mediterranean basin during the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic.

EWEN IHUEL

Ewen Ihuels work on the circulation of Grand-Pressigny flint in Brittany (France) was published in 2004. He completed a PhD in 2008 which was supervised by Catherine Perls at the University of Nanterre on the circulation of flint daggers and blades in the western part of France. Since 2007, he has worked in the archaeological office of the Dordogne department council.

NICOLE MALLET

Nicole Mallet is a French archaeologist, interested in the geological and petrographical aspects of flint. She completed a PhD in 1992 about the diffusion of Grand-Pressigny flint in the eastern part of France (Jura) and western Switzerland. She is a member of two archaeological societies (BAMGP and CEDP) and has led several excavation since 1970. Currently, she manages a research program focused on the diffusion of Grand-Pressigny material in Western Europe.

WITOLD MIGAL

Witold Migal works in the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw (Poland). His research is focused on lithic technology and experimental archaeology. He initiated and supervised the project Documentation of flint mines with use of non-invasive methods. He is the author of numerous papers on late flint industries and flint mining.

JACQUES PELEGRIN

Jacques Pelegrin is research director for CNRS and manages the UMR 7055 Prhistoire et technologie. He is specialist in lithic technology, including both archaeological and experimental approaches. He has studied the Grand-Pressigny technology for more than 25 years.

ANTONN PICHYSTAL

Prof. RNDr. Antonn Pichystal, DSc (born 1950) graduated in geology from the J. E. Purkyn University in Brno. He carried out post-graduate studies at the Charles University in Prague. For about 35 years, he has collaborated with archaeologists from Central Europe in determining raw materials used for the production of stone artefacts. Presently, as professor at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Masaryk University in Brno, he works on the issue of stone raw materials used in prehistoric times, especially regarding their petrographic determination. As a visiting professor, he has also lectured at the Silesian University in Opava.