The following oral papers, posters and stand-alone PowerPoint presentations have been accepted for inclusion in the Conference Programme. All information is correct to the best of our knowledge; please contact us (ipg.york@yahoo.co.uk) if corrections are required. Thank you.
Jens C. Ø. Andersen and Gavyn K. Rollinson,
Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter: | Mineralogical analysis of stone implements: an overview of current technologies
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Torben B Ballin,
Lithic Research, Stirlingshire: | The Felsite Industrial Complex of North Roe, Shetland - a Neolithic Axe and Knife Factory
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Ran Barkai,
Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel: | Tree felling in the service of the new Neolithic ethos: the dual role of stone axes in the establishment of farming communities in the Levant.
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Clive Bond,
Department of Archaeology, The University of Winchester: | Biographies of stone and landscape: lithic scatters
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Richard Bradley (Keynote address),
University of Reading: | Raw Material
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C. Bressy (1), W. Abouchami (2),
(1) ESEP, UMR 6636, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France
(2) Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany: | Tracing the diffusion of a late Neolithic skilled production: petrographical and geochemical characterisation of Cenozoic flints from north-western Mediterranean.
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Margaret C. Brewer, Philip C. LaPorta,
LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C., USA: | Native American Mineral Resource Exploitation in the New York Metropolitan Area, USA.
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| Stephen Briggs: | Erratics and recycled stone in Prehistoric Britain and beyond: scholarly irrelevancies or fundamental utilities?
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| Ivan Briz: | Movement inside stones: form-function dynamics analysis from ethno-archaeological lithics contexts - exploring methodologies.
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| Ivan Briz, Myrian Alvarez, Penny Spikins: | Lithics and Social Life: Approaches to Artefacts and Social Dynamics.
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David Bukach, John Hunter, Ann Woodward (University of Birmingham);
Phil Potts, Peter Webb, John Watson (Open University);
Rob Ixer (University of Leicester),
Fiona Roe: | Reconsidering the function of stone grave goods in early Bronze Age Britain.
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Adrian L. Burke,
Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Montréal: | Reconciling the symbolic and economic dimensions of lithic raw material use: examples from prehistoric northeast North America.
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Steve Burrow,
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff: | Mynydd Rhiw: a Neolithic stone extraction site in northwest Wales
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| Benjamin Tun-Yee Chan: | Life amongst the rubbish: middening and conspicuous consumption at Durrington Walls.
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| Anne Garin Carmagnani (University of Montpellier) & Yvan Pailler (freelance) : | Stone bangle production in Mali, Africa
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| Peter J. Cherry: | Flint and Tuff in prehistoric Cumbria
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| Tom Clare: | Drawing short straws.
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| Diana Coles: | The effect of heat treatment on pebble flint from southwest Scotland
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Gabriel Cooney, Stephen Mandal and Emmett O'Keeffe,
UCD, Ireland: | Iaxe - The Irish Stone Axe Database
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Timothy Darvill,
School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK: | Everybody must get stones...
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Amy Davis, Vin Davis & Mik Markham,
Implement Petrology Committee: | From implement to outcrop
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| Vin Davis & Rob Ixer: | The petrology of the Wong Tei Tung stone tool manufacturing site, Sham Chung, Hong Kong SAR, China
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| Christophe Delage: | Is there anything to say about the local exploitation of flint/chert sources? Some thoughts from the early prehistory of northern Israel (800,000-6,000 bp)
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Salvador Domínguez Bella,
Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Cádiz: | El Jadramil (arcos de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain). A new site of underground prehistoric mining in Europe
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S. Domínguez-Bella; A. Maate**; R. Morán; J. Ramos*; D, Bernal* and S. Chamorro***,
Dpt. of Earth Sciences. Universidad de Cádiz. Puerto Real, Cádiz. SPAIN,
*Dpt. of Geography & History. Archaeology Area. Universidad de Cádiz. Cádiz. SPAIN,
**Dpt. of Geology. Faculté des Sciences. Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi.Tétouan, MAROC,
***Instituto de Estudios Ceutíes. Ceuta. SPAIN: | Siliceous raw materials in the lithic industry of the Palaeolithic from the North African shore of the Gibraltar Strait
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Killian Driscoll,
UCD, Ireland: | They wrought almost any material that came in their way: Mesolithic flint alternatives in the west of Ireland.
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Killian Driscoll,
UCD, Ireland: | Quartz technology in Early Prehistoric Ireland.
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D Field,
English Heritage, Cambridge: | A shift in emphasis in Wessex: the incidence of Neolithic ground axes
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Peter Floyd,
School of Earth Sciences & Geography, Keele University: | Aspects of the petrology and geochemistry of greenstones: with special reference to SW England and Wales
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| Ann Garin-Carmagnani & Yvan Pailler: | Stone bangle production in Mali, Africa
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François GILIGNY, Françoise BOSTYN*, Adrienne LO CARMINE, Nicolas LE MAUX, Harold LETHROSNE, Cécile RIQUIER
UMR «Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité», Maison de l'archéologie et de l'ethnologie, Nanterre
* INRAP et UMR «Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité»: | Axe production and exchange in the Seine Valley.
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Gopher, A. and Barkai, R.,
Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University: | Sitting on the tailing piles: stone extraction and reduction complexes as long-term landscape markers.
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Carolyn Graves-Brown,
Egypt Centre, Swansea University: | 'The multicoloured knife has gone forth...' : Colour, luminosity and the ideological significance of flint in Dynastic Egypt
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Elizabeth Healey and Stuart Campbell,
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, The University of Manchester: | Obsidian and social relationships at Domuztepe: problems and benefits of provenancing a large assemblage of artefacts
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| Peter Halkon: | Ceremony and Carpentry - stone axes in an East Yorkshire lowland landscape
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| C. Hamon: | The functional and symbolic value of grinding stone tools from the late Bandkeramik in north-western Europe
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| D. Heslop: | Yorkshire quern case study - petrology, quarries and sources, manufacture and use, dispersal, deposition.
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Randall E. Hughes1,2, Sarah U. Wisseman2, Thomas E. Emerson2,
1Illinois State Geological Survey;
2 University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign: | Identifying implement source quarries with mineralogical analysis.
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Timothy Insoll (University of Manchester),
Rachel MacLean (University of Manchester & paper presenter), and
Benjamin Kankpeyeng (University of Ghana, Legon): | Ancestral geology: Lithic Power and shrine franchising in Northern Ghana
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Rob Ixer,
Dept of Geology, University of Leicester: | Waiting by the river: Stonehenge and the Severn Estuary
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| Heather Jackson: | The petrology and geology of the Mynydd Rhiw stone source in North Wales
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Yolaine Maigrot,
ArScAn - UMR 7041 - CNRS - (MAE, Nanterre, France): | Neolithic polished stone axes and hafting systems: technical use and social function (5th and 3rd millennia BC, Jura)
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Olaf Jaime-Riveron, Thomas Calligaro, and Dolores Tenorio,
University of Kentucky/Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France - UMR 171 du CNRS/Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares: | Landscape and archaeometry of Olmec greenstone artifacts in early Mesoamerica: quarrying, production, and consumption.
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| Laurance Manolakakis: | Technology of Michelsberg arrow heads from the Aisne Valley: a cultural marker?
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Philip C. LaPorta,
LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C.: | The life-cycle of hammerstones and the organic nature of quarry activity.
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Philip C. LaPorta1, Scott A. Minchak1,2, and Margaret C. Brewer1,
1 LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C.
2 Texas A&M University: | Task subdivision in quarries of the first, second, and third tectonic cycles of eastern North America
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Qin Ling,
University of Peking: | Craft specialisation and social change: a focus on jade-stone production in the lower Yangtze between 4000 and 2000 BC: the interaction between the craft production and social change.
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| Glenys McLaren: | Veneration and spiritual pleading through stone - observations and musings on current practice in rural Turkmenistan
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Scott Minchak,
Texas A&M University, USA; LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C., USA: | Microwear on assemblages from lithic extraction and production areas: a test study of Clovis Blades from the Gault site, Central Texas, USA
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Aimée Little,
School of Archaeology, UCD: | Extracting the social from the stone: new discoveries from an Irish Mesolithic wetland context
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| Terry Manby: | The 'Ancient Stone Implements of Yorkshire': Recovery and context in the landscape.
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Mik Markham,
Implement Petrology Group: | The Devil's in the detail - Group I and Ia axes under the microscope.
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David Mullin,
University of Reading: | The Bronze Age use of dolerite on the Welsh Border.
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C Nichol & A Morrison,
Yorkshire Museum: | Gems and precious stones in prehistory.
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Onur Ozbek,
University of Canakkale, Turkey: | Questioning the preference for primary and secondary raw material use in the Neolithic in Northwest Turkey in the production of polished stone tools.
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| Yvan Pailler: | The production, distribution and significance of all over polished flint axes in Great Britain.
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| Yves Perdaen: | The cultural significance of quartzite in the Mesolithic of the Low Countries.
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Paul R. Preston,
Donald Baden Powell Quaternary Research Centre, Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. : | Cache & Carry: Lithic Technology and Mesolithic Mobility.
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Pierre PÉTREQUIN, Laboratoire de Chrono-écologie, Besançn, France,
Serge CASSEN, Laboratoire de Préhistoire et de Protohistoire de l'Ouest de la France, Nantes, France
Michel ERRERA, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren, Belgique,
Estelle GAUTHIER, Laboratoire de Chrono-écologie, Besançon, France,
Lutz KLASSEN, Moesgard Museum, HØjbjerg, Danemark,
Anne-Marie PÉTREQUIN, Centre de Recherche Archéologique de la Vallée de l'Ain, Gray, France,
Alison SHERIDAN, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Ecosse,
Michel ROSSY, Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
: | Eclogite ou jadeitite : les deux couleurs des transferts de haches Alpines en Europe occidentale.
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P.J. Potts, P.C. Webb and J.S. Watson,
The Open University: | The use of portable XRF analysis in provenancing lithic artefacts.
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Roberto Risch1, David Gomez Gras2, Nicole Boivin3, Adam Brumm3 & Michael Petraglia3
1Departament de Prehistória, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
2Departament de Geología, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
3Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge: | The prehistoric axe factory at Sanganakallu-Kapgal (Bellary District, Southern India).
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Roberto Risch,
Departament de Prehistória, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona: | Social and economic organisation of stone ace production and distribution in the West Mediterranean.
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Guillaume Robin[1] & Serge Cassen[2]
[1] Laboratoire de Préhistoire, Université de Nantes
[2] CNRS (UMR 6566), Laboratoire de Préhistoire, Université de Nantes: | The rôle of the stone in Neolithic steles and passage tomb art : case-studies and methods of representation in Ireland and Brittany.
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| Fiona Roe and Ann Woodward: | Bits and Pieces: Early Bronze Age stone bracers from Ireland
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L Sari,
Doctorante au Laboratoire de Préhistoire et Technologie, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France: | Lithic raw material economy of some late upper Palaeolithic assemblages from North Algiers.
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Michael Saso,
Peli University, Beijing: | Archaeology and the Gate of Hell
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Lorraine Seymour,
University of Sheffield: | Stone artefacts as unitary social and physical markers in Dartmoor's later prehistoric landscapes.
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Roy Sit Kai Sin (Macau Museum, PR China)
& Vin Davis (IPG): | The stone tool industry of Hac Sa, Macau, PR China
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| Per Storemyr: | Stone Procurement and Rock-Art at the West Bank of Aswan, Egypt.
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Peter Topping,
English Heritage, Cambridge: | Ritualised extraction
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| Christina Tsoraki: | Rethinking ground stone technology and its implications for Neolithic societies in Northern Greece
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Annelou van Gijn,
Laboratory for Artefact Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands: | Flint as food for thought: the social significance of flint for Neolithic and Bronze Age communities in the Lower Rhine Basin
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Stella Ward, North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership,
Andrew K. G. Jones, York Archaeological Trust and University of Bradford: | Stone artefacts from Blansby Park , North Yorkshire : stimulating interest in science and archaeology with new audiences.
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Graeme Warren,
UCD School of Archaeology, Ireland | Raw Material Diversity in Irish Later Mesolithic Stone Tools: a contribution from Belderrig, North Co. Mayo, Ireland.
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Dave Weddle,
IPG: | Man the tool maker: understanding prehistoric stone tool technology through reverse engineering, manufacture and use-wear.
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| Jane Kenny and John Williams: | Graig Lwyd (Group VII) lithic assemblages from the excavations at Bryn Cegin, Llandygai, Gwynedd.
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Jenny Young,
University of Bradford: | An assessment of the geochemical surface/sub-surface alteration of flint in the post-depositional environment: using material from Grimes Graves flint mine, Norfolk as a case study.
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Andrew T. Young,
University of Exeter: | The geometry and symmetry of Scottish carved stone balls explored though experimental replication: implications for their typology and the study of proto-mathematics.
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Zhai Shaodong (Shaun),
University of Peking: | A study of the pattern of exploitation at the quarry on Mount Dagudui, Shanxi Province, PR China.
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Professor Zhang Chi,
University of Peking: | A perspective on the lithics industry in the Chinese Neolithic
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Zhuang Lina,
University of Peking: | The Xuejiagang stone tool industry.
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