Written in stone
Subtitle: papers on the function, form, and provenancing of prehistoric stone objects in memory of Fiona Roe
By: edited by Ruth Shaffrey
Series: Southampton monographs in archaeology
Publisher: Highfield Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: St Andrews
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780992633684
Subjects: Stone implements; Prehistoric Antiquities
Description: Prehistoric Britain has generated an enormous number and wide variety of stone objects, but few books deal specifically with stone tools that are not flint. This book brings together papers from 22 of the UK?s archaeologists investigating the stone objects that were fundamental to the daily lives of prehistoric people. The book is divided into four sections. Part 1 is a short section designed to introduce the reader to the range of stone objects used in prehistory. Part 2 contains papers that deal with the petrology and typology of axeheads, maceheads, battle axes and felsite tools. Papers in Part 3 are about function, form and dating of querns. Part 4 is a broad ranging section dealing with?other? types of artefacts and materials, from considerations of the form and function of bracers, loomweights, Bronze Age jewellery and polissoirs, to the use of materials such as beach resources and chalk.0The book will appeal to scholars of prehistory, and to anyone with an interest in the exploitation of stone resources and the function and form of the resulting objects. It is intended as a tribute to Fiona Roe, FSA. Fiona worked tirelessly on all aspects of stone artefacts and encouraged, supported and inspired many scholars to embark on studies of them. This book would not have been possible without the groundwork that she laid during the last five decades.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dedication to Fiona Roe / Nath Alcock, Fenella Heckscher, Ruth Shaffrey and Katharine Walker; title: Introduction : the history of stone artefact studies / Fiona Roe; title: Process, form and time : maceheads in an Orcadian context / Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Ann Clarke, Mark Edmonds and Antonia Thomas; title: Cornish axe groupings, not Cornish axe factories : new work on sourcing of Neolithic stone axes in Cornwall / Andy M. Jones, Henrietta Quinnell and Roger Taylor; title: A critical review of Group IV implements and sources : fact and opinion / Vin Davis; title: North Roes felstie and Shetland's felsite material culture / Torben Ballin; title: Stone battle axe production in Yorkshire / Terry Manby; title: Sizing up Neolithic saddle querns / John Cruse; title: The significance of quernstones : defining bell beaker 'domestic burials' at Amesbury Down, Wiltshire / Alistair Barclay and Pippa Bradley; title: The quernstones of Glastonbury and Meare / Susan Watts; title: 'The famous volcanic rock of the Eifel' / Andrew Fitzpatrick; title: The beach as source and destination / Richard Bradley; title: A re-investigation of British stone 'loomweights' / Ruth Shaffrey; title: Towards a methodology for the study of prehistoric jet and jet-like jewellery / Alison Sheridan; title: Polissoirs : social memory in the Avebury landscape / Michele Drisse; title: More than 'other stone' : new methods to analyse prehistoric chalk artefacts / Anne Teather; title: Beaker-age bracers made from Langdale rock : the new find from Cranbrook, Devon in context / Fiona Roe and Ann Woodward.