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A project plan on initiating a quartz processing business using  Sri Lankan vein quartz deposits and analysis on potential barriers.
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      Mining EngineeringMineralogyText MiningMinerals
Vein quartz as a raw material for prehistoric stone tools is a much maligned material, very often treated to a cursory analysis only, if it is analysed at all. This paper examines the role of quartz in Neolithic stone tool traditions... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyNeolithic Archaeology
Over the past 30 years researchers have approached the analysis of quartz stone tools from a number of perspectives, with an especial focus on experimental knapping to understand the fracture mechanics of quartz. However, there has been... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyArchaeological Science
Archaeologists have only recently recognised vein quartz as a significant part of prehistoric stone technologies in Ireland and Britain. As a raw material, quartz is abundant in many areas of Ireland and Britain and was utilised... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyTypologyArchaeological Science
Stone tools are poorly recognized during the Iron Age, and this paper aims at showing their importance. The few Armorican series presented here show that these tools can provide valuable information about craft industry and the... more
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      ArchaeologyCoastal and Island ArchaeologyLithic TechnologyGround Stone Technology
In this paper we present the results of a use-wear study of quartz micro-notches identified during a technological analysis of lithics from the Howiesons Poort layers of Sibudu Cave. Building on the technological analysis and preliminary... more
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      Use Wear AnalysisLithic TechnologyQuartz industriesProjectile technology
The main thesis incorporates the following embedded articles: Paper I. Manninen, M. A. & Knutsson, K. 2011. Northern Inland Oblique Point Sites – a New Look into the Late Mesolithic Oblique Point Tradition in Eastern Fennoscandia.... more
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      ArchaeologyClimate ChangeEnvironmental ArchaeologyClimate Change Adaptation
Considered as second-rate lithic raw materials by the traditional typological studies, quartz and quartzite have varied mechanical and petrological characteristics. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are among the earliest lithic... more
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      Palaeolithic ArchaeologyQuartz industriesQuartzite Litthic IndustryHungarian Palaeolithic
This paper summarizes the archaeological data recovered from Late Archaic sites 97-71 and 97-72 in Newtown, Connecticut. The information is used to draw conclusions concerning site use and the role of the project area in the prehistoric... more
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      Northeastern North America (Archaeology)Lithic TechnologyQuartz industriesArchaeology, Lithic analysis and organization of technology
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyNortheastern North America (Archaeology)Lithic TechnologyLithic Technology (Archaeology)
In general, quartz and most of non-flint rocks have not been extensively studied from a functional point of view. Very frequently the definitions of micro-features connected with flint surfaces have been used to describe those encountered... more
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      Experimental ArchaeologyMicroscopyUse Wear AnalysisResidue and Use-Wear Analysis
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyGift ExchangeSymbolic Anthropology (Anthropology)Lithics
"Lately, anthropologists and archaeologists have emphasized the social dimensions of all technologies. However, it is also well known that the quality and quantity of lithic resources affected the organisation of the prehistoric use of... more
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      ArchaeologyLithic TechnologyScandinavia (Archaeology)Lithics
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      Palaeolithic ArchaeologyMesolithic ArchaeologySurvey ResearchNeanderthals (Palaeolithic Archaeology)
Striking a block of stone with a pebble to remove a flake, here is the summary of the technical world of prehistoric people for part of the public, but also, and more worrisome for some experts. What tells us the archaeological material?... more
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      Experimental ArchaeologyPalaeolithic ArchaeologyLithic TechnologyQuartz industries
Los denticulados y las muescas son dos de los elementos más frecuentes en la panoplia musteriense. El creciente interés por el estudio de estos tipos permite vislumbrar su complejidad. La aparente estandarización de sus formas no lo es... more
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      GeographyUse Wear AnalysisMousterianQuartz industries
Denticulates and notches are two of the most ubiquitous types in Mousterian industries. The increased interest on their study suggests these tools are more complex than expected. New typometric studies indicate that they are not as... more
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      Use Wear AnalysisArchaeology of the Iberian PeninsulaNeanderthals (Palaeolithic Archaeology)Mousterian
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyCeramic Analysis (Archaeology)
Cultural contact, exchange and interaction feature high in the list of challenging topics of current research on European Prehistory. Not far off is the issue of the changing role of monuments in the making and maintaining of key cultural... more
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      ReligionComparative ReligionHistoryEconomic History
This paper examines an assemblage of quartz objects, such as crystals (rock crystal and prase) and pebbles, that were found in two spatially and chronologically different contexts of the Palacio III megalithic complex (Almadén de la... more
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      ReligionGeographyPhysical GeographyPrehistoric Archaeology
Experimental studies suggest that the high fragmentation tendency of vein quartz can be controlled to some degree by favorable technological choices, i.e., by producing thicker artifacts and by using bipolar-on-anvil reduction. In this... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyLithicsLithic Technology (Archaeology)
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      Experimental ArchaeologyUse Wear AnalysisLithic TechnologyQuartz industries
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyNeolithic Archaeology
de Lombera-Hermida, A.; Rodríguez-Álvarez, X.P.; Peña, L.; Sala-Ramos, R; Despriée, J.; Moncel, M-H.; Gourcimault, G.; Voinchet, P. and Falguères, C. 2016. The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the... more
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      Lower PaleolithicQuartz industriesExperimental Archaeology x Lithics x Lithic Technology x Quartz industries x Typology x Archaeology x Archaeometry x Archaeological Method & Theory x Archaeological Science x Statistical Methods in Archaeology xLower Pleistocene
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologySpatial AnalysisOrkney and Shetland studiesLate Bronze Age archaeology
"We analyse a sample of 158 Late Mesolithic margin-retouched points from two geographically separate point populations in Finland to determine whether they represent the same technological tradition with a common descent history or... more
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      Mesolithic ArchaeologyCultural EvolutionLithic TechnologyLithics
Despite its worldwide use as a stone tool raw material, quartz is known to be a difficult material for archaeologists. The main reason for this is the tendency of quartz flakes to fragment during detachment, which complicates the use of... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyArchaeological ScienceLithic Technology
Veternica Cave is a Middle Paleolithic site located on the southwestern part of Medvednica Mountain, Croatia. From 1951 to 1955 and in 1971 the site was excavated and hundreds of stone artefacts of the Mousterian culture were collected.... more
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      Middle PalaeolithicQuartz industriesLithic AnalysisEemian interglacial
Quartz is ubiquitous in the natural landscape and in human-made assemblages worldwide. It has played an important role in some of the earliest stone tool assemblages, the nineteenth century gold rush, and continues to have a myriad of... more
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      Experimental ArchaeologyIndigenous or Aboriginal StudiesLithic TechnologyAboriginal History in Australia
The invention of the bow and arrow was a milestone in Late Pleistocene technological evolution. Preservation biases and methodological problems impede our ability to detect its presence in the archaeological record. Currently, South... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMiddle Stone Age (Archaeology)
The use of quartz as a raw material for flaked stone tools was widespread in Irish prehistory but a traditional focus by archaeologists on flint, and the use of a flint framework for analysing quartz, has led to the neglect of prehistoric... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMesolithic Archaeology
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Neolithic & Chalcolithic ArchaeologyMining
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      Lithic TechnologyPrehistoric TechnologyIberian Prehistory (Archaeology)Paleolithic Europe
this article presents the only industry in quartz found in the different levels of Grotta la Fabbrica, with the aim of analysing methods, techniques and single products derived from the exploitation of this raw material. From the... more
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      AurignacianQuartz industriesExperimental Archaeology x Lithics x Lithic Technology x Quartz industries x Typology x Archaeology x Archaeometry x Archaeological Method & Theory x Archaeological Science x Statistical Methods in Archaeology xUluzzian
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyAlpine ArchaeologyQuartz industriesQuartz
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      Lithic TechnologyMousterianMiddle PalaeolithicQuartz industries
The results of studies applied to pieces made of quatrz and quartzite at the site of Payre (isotopic stages 7 and 5) testify to the peculiar handling of these stones which were collected in the neighbourhood of the site and are little... more
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      Functional MorphologyLithic TechnologyLithicsPaleolithic Europe
Elands Bay Cave (EBC) is a key South African site allowing discussion of technological change and adaptations that occurred from the Upper Pleniglacial to the Holocene. In 2011, we set out a new field campaign aiming to clarify the nature... more
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      Heat TreatmentUse Wear AnalysisLithic TechnologyLater Stone Age (Archaeology)
En este trabajo se presentan los datos preliminares provenientes del análisis de los artefactos líticos de la localidad arqueológica de Rincón Chico que pertenece al período Tardío y se encuentra ubicada en el Departamento de Santa María,... more
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      Andean ArchaeologyLithic TechnologyQuartz industriesLithic Raw Material Sourcing
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      ArchaeologyLithic TechnologyLithicsQuartz industries
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      Flint (Archaeology)LithicsArchaeology of RitualQuartz industries
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      Lithic TechnologyMiddle PalaeolithicQuartz industries
The primary aims of this study were to determine how vein quartz behaves in an open wood fire and to suggest how burnt quartz may reliably be distinguished from unburnt quartz. Experimental burning was conducted on 10-50 mm pieces of... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyGeology
A presente monografia apresenta o resultado das análises tecnológicas das coleções líticas pré-coloniais sobre quartzo do sítio arqueológico Caixa d’Água, situado no município de Buritizeiro – Minas Gerais. A coleção é proveniente do... more
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      Quartz industriesArqueologiaTecnología LíticaArqueologia Pré-Histórica
El yacimiento de Cova Eirós, aunque ya conocido desde finales del siglo xx, se está erigiendo como una secuencia de referencia para el estudio del Paleolítico medio y superior del noroeste peninsular. Las intervenciones iniciadas en 2008... more
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      Galician StudiesMiddle to Upper Paleolithic TransitionQuartz industriesMiddle Paleolithic
In many prehistoric lithic industries are often presents artifacts defined “scaled pieces”. At Grotta La Fabbrica (Grosseto, Italy), unlike Mousterian, in the Uluzzian and Aurignacian lithic industries these pieces are very important.... more
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      Experimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Lithic Technology
Quartz sand of Fortuna formation was assigned to the Oligo-Miocene. This formation outcrops in Central Tunisia, particularly in the Ain Bou Morra area. The grain particle size ranges from fine to medium. The morphoscopic analysis shows... more
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      Mineral ProcessingQuartz industriesquartz purification
A presente monografia apresenta o resultado das análises tecnológicas de coleções líticas de quartzo sendo uma pré-histórica e outra histórica, provenientes do município de Jequitaí, Minas Gerais. A coleção pré-histórica foi exumada do... more
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      ArchaeologyMiningLithic TechnologyLithic Technology (Archaeology)
An assemblage of 500 (385 quartz and 115 chert) experimentally knapped artefacts, underwent human trampling over the course of two weeks by a team of 10–12 excavators wearing soft-soled shoes used while excavating in the rock shelter. Two... more
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      ArchaeologyExperimental ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyTypology