Adrian Burke - Ancient Mines and Quarries: A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

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Front cover: Earthwork remains of Neolithic flint mine shafts and spoil heaps at Grimes Graves,
Norfolk, UK. Photograph taken from a helicopter in early morning light Pete Topping.

Back cover: The Pike of Stickle, Great Langdale, Cumbria, UK, where quarrying has taken place
on dangerously narrow ledges on the face of the mountainside. The group of figures provide scale.
Photograph: Dave Field.

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Contents

List of Contributors

Elizabeth Bloxam Inst. of Archaeology, University College London.

Margaret Brewer-LaPorta LaPorta Associates, L.L.C., Geological Consultants, 5 First Street #73, Warwick, New York, 10990, USA
and
Department of Chemistry and Physical Sciences, Dyson School of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York USA

Franois Bon Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Robert Boszhardt Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1725 State Street, La Crosse, WI 54601

Laurent Bruxelles INRAP et Laboratoire TRACES/CRPPM (UMR 5608 du CNRS), 13 rue du Ngoce, 31650 St-Orens-de-Gameville, France .

Adrian Burke Dpartement danthropologie, Universit de Montral, C.P.6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montral QC H3C 3J7

Dillon Carr Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, 354 Baker Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824

Pierre Chalard Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Richard Ciszak LMTG, Universit de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, OMP; 14 av. E. Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France .

Sylvain Ducasse Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Isabelle Duval Laboratoire darchologie et Laboratoire de gochimie, Universit du Qubec Chicoutimi, Qubec, Canada, G7H 2B1

Thomas E. Emerson Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (UIUC), 209 Nuclear Physics Laboratory, 23 East Stadium Dr., Champaign Il 61820

John C. Erwin Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7

Kenneth B. Farnsworth Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (UIUC), 209 Nuclear Physics Laboratory, 23 East Stadium Dr., Champaign Il 61820

David Field English Heritage, Kemble Drive, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 2GZ, UK

Ivan Gatsov New Bulgarian University, National Archaeological Institute and Museum.

Philippe Gardere Universit de Toulouse III, France

Patricia Guillermin Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Tom Heldal Geological Survey of Norway, N-7491 Trondheim

Randall E. Hughes Illinois State Geological Survey, 121 Natural Resources Building, 615 E. Peabody Ave, Champaign IL 61820

Patrick J. Julig Anthropology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, P3E 2C6

Adel Kelany Supreme Council of Antiquities, Aswan, Egypt )

Philip C. LaPorta LaPorta Associates, L.L.C., Geological Consultants, 5 First Street #73, Warwick, New York, 10990, USA

Sbastien Lacombe Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Mathieu Langlais Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France et SERP, Barcelone, Espagne

David Leblanc Laboratoire darchologie, Universit du Qubec Chicoutimi

Darrel Long Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, P3E 2C6

Romain Mensan Centre archologique de Karnak, Egypte

Scott A. Minchak LaPorta LaPorta Associates, L.L.C., Geological Consultants, 5 First Street #73, Warwick, New York, 10990, USA

Jean-Franois Moreau Laboratoire darchologie, Universit du Qubec Chicoutimi

Christian Normand Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Caroline Renard Laboratoire ARSCAN (UMR 7041 du CNRS), Nanterre, France et Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Robert Simonnet Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Per Storemyr Geological Survey of Norway, N-7491 Trondheim

Andoni Tarrio Universit du Pays Basque, Vitoria, Espagne

Nicolas Teyssandier Laboratoire TRACES (UMR 5608 du CNRS), Toulouse, France

Pete Topping English Heritage, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, UK

Sarah Wisseman Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 704 S. Neil St., Champaign IL 61820

Preface

This volume has its origins in a series of meetings on prehistoric mines and quarries held at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006. These included symposium and poster sessions that investigated a variety of aspects of recent work along with a workshop to discuss international nomenclature and were among the first events arranged by the Prehistoric Quarries Interest Group of the SAA. The interest generated a resolve to establish further workshops and events in future years in order to encourage and stimulate new ideas and provide a catalyst for new areas of research. Some of the contributions made were to be published elsewhere, but others have been brought together as a follow up to a similar set of papers from an earlier meeting The Cultural Landscape of Prehistoric Mines edited by Peter Topping and Mark Lynott in 2005 and published by Oxbow Books. Essays are loosely grouped into matters dealing with the old world, ancient world and the new world rather than by rock or quarry type, or by period. The contributions range from those dealing with ethnography to those with a geochemical approach, from excavation to survey and conservation, all of which serve to reflect the wide ranging approaches currently being applied to the subject.