Connecting Networks : Characterising Contact by Measuring Lithic Exchange in the European Neolithic.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Key raw materials for Neolithic shoe-last celts and axes in Central Europe: their sources and distribution -- Antonín Přichystal -- Long-distance distribution of raw materials for chipped stone artefacts in the Neolithic of Central Europe (Moravia and eastern Austria) in the 6th and 5th millennia BC -- Inna Mateiciucová and Gerhard Trnka -- Raw materials exchange as part of a network: the case study of the LBK Middle Mosel area -- Anne Hauzeur -- The 'Rijckholt' Connection: Neolithic extraction and circulation of Lanaye flints -- Marjorie E.Th. de Grooth -- Flint exchange in time and space: a study of Middle Neolithic assemblages from Western Germany and beyond -- Kathrin Nowak -- Stones on the move: the contribution of microwear analysis for understanding the Neolithisation process -- Annelou van Gijn -- The circulation of flint raw materials in northern France and Belgium during the Early Neolithic -- Pierre Allard and Solène Denis -- Flint productions and distribution networks at the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 4th millennia BC in north-western France and western Belgium -- Françoise Bostyn -- Projet JADE 2. 'Object-signs' and social interpretations of Alpine jade axeheads in the European Neolithic: theory and methodology -- Lutz Klassen -- Pierre Pétrequin, Alison Sheridan, Estelle Gauthier, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera and -- Chert from the Rein Basin (Styria, Austria): Prehistoric use and distribution -- Michael Brandl, Maria M. Martinez, Daniel Modl and Estella Weiss-Krejci -- A radiocarbon chronology of European flint mines suggests a link to population patterns -- Tim Kerig, Kevan Edinborough, Sean Downey and Stephen Shennan -- List of contributors -- Programme of the workshop.

This volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop held at University College London, 15-17 October 2011, as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL 2010-2015).

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