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Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Metallurgy in archaeology --- Cuivre --- Métallurgie en archéologie --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques --- Sinai (Egypt) --- Sinaï (Egypte) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités

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Neolithic period --- Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Néolithique --- Silex --- Mines préhistoriques --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques

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The Union Internationale des Sciences Pré- et Protohistoriques (UISPP) commission on "Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Times" was created at the 12th meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (Cracow, Poland, 19th-24th September 2006). The aim was to perpetuate the tradition of organizing international symposia on flint, established by the Limburg Branch of the Dutch Geological Society in 1969 at Maastricht. The commission intends to maintain cooperation in archaeological research on siliceous rock mining (flint, chert, hornstone, radiolarite, jasper and obsidian), by presenting and discussing methods and results. Major fields of interest include the different stages of chaînes opératoires of manufacture, specialisation of labour and circulation of raw materials, as well as the study of flint mining sites in relation to pre- and protohistoric settlement patterns. The objective of the commission is to promote these lines of research into flint mining and its methods, thus enabling a better understanding of the various phenomena and processes taking place in pre- and protohistoric times. This volume contains the papers of the Paris conference held on 10th-11th September 2012, together with some additional papers presented at Vienna 2010 and Florianópolis 2011. A first set of contributions concerns the main topic of the conference, which was lithothèques and reference collections. A further group of papers concerns the second conference theme: workshops, from excavation to chaînes opératoires reconstruction.

Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Silex --- Congresses. --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques --- Congrès --- Industrie lithique --- Lithic raw material resources --- Protohistoric times --- Lithic raw material resources. --- Protohistoric times. --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques --- Congrès --- Industrie lithique.

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Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Flintknapping --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Protohistory --- Silex --- Débitage (Préhistoire) --- Antiquités préhistoriques --- Protohistoire --- Congresses --- History --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques --- Congrès --- Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric. --- Flintknapping. --- Feuersteinbergbau. --- Vor- und Frühgeschichte. --- Débitage (Préhistoire) --- Antiquités préhistoriques --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques --- Congrès --- Flint mines and mining, Prehistoric - Congresses --- Flintknapping - History - Congresses

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Derrycarhoon is the first copper mine from the later Bronze Age discovered in Ireland. This book presents the results of recent geoarchaeological survey and sample excavation of a small multi-period mine, with details of landscape setting, bedrock geology, mineralisation and palaeoecology. The recent history of mining and prospection at Derrycarhoon is examined, including the discovery in 1846 of so-called ?Danish Mines?, now dated c.1300-1000 BC. The technology and operation of that prehistoric copper mine is considered, as well as its significance for the supply of metal in later Bronze Age Ireland. The wider context is explored in relation to Bronze Age settlement in the region, with reference to ritual monuments and religious beliefs of the mining community. That local landscape of small farming communities was connected to trade networks at regional level, controlled by emerging hillfort chiefdoms at a time of growing militarism and pressures on metal supply in Ireland.

Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Cuivre --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Bronze age. --- Copper mines and mining, Prehistoric. --- Mines et extraction préhistoriques --- Ireland --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Civilization --- Prehistoric copper mines and mining