Living with Flint
Our understanding of prehistoric life is shaped to a large degree by the study of stone tools. Their exceptional preservation makes flint tools ideally suited to reconstruct past lifeways. Use-wear analysis provides insights into the role of the ‘missing majority’ of perishable organic materials suc...
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| author | van den Dikkenberg, Lasse |
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| description | Our understanding of prehistoric life is shaped to a large degree by the study of stone tools. Their exceptional preservation makes flint tools ideally suited to reconstruct past lifeways. Use-wear analysis provides insights into the role of the ‘missing majority’ of perishable organic materials such as hide, wood, and plant fibres in past technologies. Reconstructing lithic biographies, from raw material procurement to use and recycling, reveals the complex dynamics of prehistoric life. This book explores the lifeways of Vlaardingen Culture communities (3400-2500 BCE) in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta through the lens of such object biographies. A detailed study of flint assemblages from four key sites reconstructs past exchange networks, technological choices, and everyday activities. Flint was imported across considerable distances, often as finished tools such as polished axes. Once acquired, exotic material was fully appropriated and integrated into the local technological system. Use-wear evidence further reveals the emergence of part-time craft specialisation during the Vlaardingen Culture period. Finally, the experimental research and use-wear analyses offer new insights into life in the delta, providing the earliest evidence in the Netherlands for the use of horn in craft production. These findings illuminate how communities lived and interacted in the dynamic wetland environment of the delta. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1762312026-05-05T05:38:45Z Living with Flint van den Dikkenberg, Lasse Neolithic European prehistory Vlaardingen culture Use-wear analysis Object biographies Flint Wetlands Settlement archaeology Experimental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Our understanding of prehistoric life is shaped to a large degree by the study of stone tools. Their exceptional preservation makes flint tools ideally suited to reconstruct past lifeways. Use-wear analysis provides insights into the role of the ‘missing majority’ of perishable organic materials such as hide, wood, and plant fibres in past technologies. Reconstructing lithic biographies, from raw material procurement to use and recycling, reveals the complex dynamics of prehistoric life. This book explores the lifeways of Vlaardingen Culture communities (3400-2500 BCE) in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta through the lens of such object biographies. A detailed study of flint assemblages from four key sites reconstructs past exchange networks, technological choices, and everyday activities. Flint was imported across considerable distances, often as finished tools such as polished axes. Once acquired, exotic material was fully appropriated and integrated into the local technological system. Use-wear evidence further reveals the emergence of part-time craft specialisation during the Vlaardingen Culture period. Finally, the experimental research and use-wear analyses offer new insights into life in the delta, providing the earliest evidence in the Netherlands for the use of horn in craft production. These findings illuminate how communities lived and interacted in the dynamic wetland environment of the delta. 2026-05-05T05:38:44Z 2026-05-05T05:38:44Z 2026-05-04T08:43:56Z 2026 book ONIX_20260429T161217_9789464281293_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112840 9789464281293 9789464281309 9789464281316 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176231 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/112840/1/9789464281293.pdf Sidestone Press Sidestone Press Dissertations 10.59641/r2u8o9p0q1 10.59641/r2u8o9p0q1 f8b41c78-b5d0-411d-aa34-324bccd61c66 bcc508f3-55cf-4743-88c6-113ff40529a4 d86a0fcd-0938-4a99-9278-f8e9f0c8b62a 9789464281293 9789464281309 9789464281316 Sidestone Press Dissertations 280 Leiden AIB.19.020 Archeologie Telt Sociale en Geesteswetenschappen, NWO Social Sciences and Humanities 10.13039/501100024871 open access |
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