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Introduction Introduction
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The what and where of European flint The what and where of European flint
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The techniques and skills of flint mining The techniques and skills of flint mining
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Mining structures Mining structures
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Mining kits Mining kits
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Organization and planning Organization and planning
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Final products Final products
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The times and scales of mining The times and scales of mining
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Beyond practical reasons Beyond practical reasons
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26 Shared Labour and Large-Scale Action: European Flint Mining
Get accessMarta Capote is a doctoral candidate at the Instituto de Historia (CSIC, Madrid), where she is a member of the ‘Casa Montero Flint Mine Project’ and the Social and Economic Prehistory Research Group. Her interests are the Iberian Neolithic, lithic technology, palaeoeconomy, social prehistory, raw material procurement and management, and labour organization. Her current doctoral research focuses on the percussion tools from Casa Montero and the social context of labour mobilization during the early Neolithic of Central Iberia. She has co-authored ‘Flint mining in early Neolithic Iberia: a preliminary report on “Casa Montero”(Madrid, Spain)’ (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1891), ‘The earliest flint mine in Iberia’ (Antiquity 80, 307), and co-edited the ‘Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the UISPP Commission on flint mining in pre- and protohistoric times’ (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2260).
Pedro Díaz-del-Río is a Tenured Scientist at the Instituto de Historia (CSIC, Madrid). His research has focused on the late prehistory of Iberia, with particular attention to the social and political context of collective labour mobilization during the late Neolithic and Copper Age. He has conducted field projects in central Iberia, including the excavation of the first ditched enclosures discovered in the area. Publications include ‘Copper Age ditched enclosures in Central Iberia’ (Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23), ‘Factionalism and collective labor in Copper Age Iberia’ (Trabajos de Prehistoria 61), and the co-edited book ‘Social inequality in Iberian late Prehistory’ (BAR International Series 1525). He currently shares the responsibility of the ‘Casa Montero Flint Mine Project’ with Susana Consuegra.
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Published:02 June 2014
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Abstract
It is not until the Neolithic that we find the first extensive mining evidence, this activity peaking in the fourth millennium BC. Techniques were relatively similar and the extractive process left few remains other than incredible amounts of processed stone and a radically altered landscape. As a result, the time span of mining events and the size of mobilized workforces are difficult to determine, with any possible evidence for the social, economic, and ideological context of each individual mining action frequently lying beyond the comparatively large-scale flint mines themselves. The nature of mining and the way it shaped society shifted through time and space, with the functions and uses of their products also changing its meaning in social life. Regional histories are critical to assessing shifts in the possible purposes of production, the use and transformation of values attached to mined objects, the social and ideological driving forces behind mining actions, and the transformation of identities through the deployment of labour.
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