New Radiocarbon Dates Show Early Neolithic Date of Flint-Mining and Stone Quarrying in Britain. Issue 1 (7th February 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- New Radiocarbon Dates Show Early Neolithic Date of Flint-Mining and Stone Quarrying in Britain. Issue 1 (7th February 2020)
- Main Title:
- New Radiocarbon Dates Show Early Neolithic Date of Flint-Mining and Stone Quarrying in Britain
- Authors:
- Edinborough, Kevan
Shennan, Stephen
Teather, Anne
Baczkowski, Jon
Bevan, Andrew
Bradley, Richard
Cook, Gordon
Kerig, Tim
Parker Pearson, Mike
Pope, Alexander
Schauer, Peter - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: New radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates suggest a simultaneous appearance of two technologically and geographically distinct axe production practices in Neolithic Britain; igneous open-air quarries in Great Langdale, Cumbria, and from flint mines in southern England at ~4000–3700 cal BC. In light of the recent evidence that farming was introduced at this time by large-scale immigration from northwest Europe, and that expansion within Britain was extremely rapid, we argue that this synchronicity supports this speed of colonization and reflects a knowledge of complex extraction processes and associated exchange networks already possessed by the immigrant groups; long-range connections developed as colonization rapidly expanded. Although we can model the start of these new extraction activities, it remains difficult to estimate how long significant production activity lasted at these key sites given the nature of the record from which samples could be obtained.
- Is Part Of:
- Radiocarbon. Volume 62:Issue 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Radiocarbon
- Issue:
- Volume 62:Issue 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 62, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 62
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0062-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 75
- Page End:
- 105
- Publication Date:
- 2020-02-07
- Subjects:
- axe production, -- boom-bust economics, -- flint mines, -- Great Britain, -- Neolithic, -- quarries, -- radiocarbon
Radiocarbon dating -- Periodicals
930.1028505 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.radiocarbon.org/ ↗
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=RDC ↗
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon ↗
http://www.catchword.com/rpsv/catchword/arizona/00338222/contp1-1.htm ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/RDC.2019.85 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0033-8222
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