The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution Edited by Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas and Nuno Bicho The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory: Sourcing, Processing and Distribution Edited by Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas and Nuno Bicho This book first published 2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2017 by Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas, Nuno Bicho and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-9597-0 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-9597-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword .................................................................................................... xi Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas, Nuno Bicho Contributors .............................................................................................. xiii Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Flint Outcrops and Behavioral Flexibility: Testing the Hypothesis of Recycling Acheulian Handaxes at the Middle Paleolithic Workshop Giv'at Rabi East, Lower Galilee, Israel Alla Yaroshevich, Maayan Shemer Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 15 Raw Material Diversity, Availability and Sourcing in the River Lis Basin, Central Portugal Telmo Pereira, Eduardo Paixão, Vânia Carvalho, Susana Carvalho, Telmo Gomes Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 30 Quarrying as a Socio-Political Strategy at the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Southern Norway Astrid J. Nyland Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 46 An Analysis of the Use of Quarries and Workshops by Late Prehistoric People in Western Pennsylvania Beverly A. Chiarulli Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 62 Identifying Iron-Rich Raw Material Sources with a Multi-Technique Approach: Some Analytical Problems Detected in the Case Study of a Prehistoric Mine-Cave From Southern Italy Luca A. Dimuccio, Ana M. Amado, Luís A. E. Batista De Carvalho, Felice Larocca vi Table of Contents Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 77 Neolithic Flint Quarries on Montvell (Catalan Pre-Pyrenees, NE Iberia) Xavier Terradas, David Ortega, Dioscorides Marín, Alba Masclans, Carles Roqué Chapter Seven............................................................................................ 90 Domoszló: Grinding Stone and Millstone Production Centre in Hungary Bálint Péterdi, Katalin T. Biró, Zoltán Tóth Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 98 The Use of Non-Destructive Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis (EDXRF) for Sourcing Flint in Northern Europe: Progress to Date and Prospects for the Future Deborah Olausson, Anders Högberg, Richard E. Hughes Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 113 Near Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy for Raw Materials Characterization: The Example of a Mesolithic Dwelling Site in Northern Sweden Claudia Sciuto, Johan Linderholm, Paul Geladi Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 121 Siliceous Raw Material Sources at La Sierrita De Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico: A First Approach of Lithic Procurement During Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Maya Lowlands Maria Alejandra Espinosa, Gabriela Armentano Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 134 Terrain Difficulty as a Relevant Proxy for Objectifying Mobility Patterns and Economic Behaviour in the Aurignacian of the Middle Danube Region: The Case of Stratzing-Galgenberg (Austria) Luc Moreau, Guido Heinz, Anja Cramer, Michael Brandl, Oliver Schmitsberger, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 148 Chert Chemical Composition Analysis for Geoarchaeological Application Liga Zarina, Valdis Seglins Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 161 Preliminary Geochemical Results (ICP-MS) of Flint Debitage from an Extensive Paleolithic and Neolithic/Chalcolithic Extraction and Reduction Complex in the Eastern Galilee, Israel Meir Finkel, Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher, Ofir Tirosh, Erez Ben-Yosef The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory vii Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 174 The Zambujal’s Arrowheads: A Petroarchaeologic Approach to Flint’s Provenance Determination Patrícia Jordão, Nuno Pimentel Chapter Fifteen ........................................................................................ 191 Testing a New Methodological Approach to Define the Use of Dolerite Outcrops for Prehistoric Tools Production in Mediterranean Iberia Teresa Orozco Köhler, Gianni Gallello Chapter Sixteen ....................................................................................... 205 “Where does your Saddle Quern come from?” Grinding in the Contemporary Province of Limburg (BE) during the Iron Age Else Hartoch, Tatjana Gluhak, Roland Dreesen, Eric Goemaere Chapter Seventeen ................................................................................... 222 What For These Blades? Flint Blades Production and Circulation in Final Neolithic Sardinia Barbara Melosu, Carlo Lugliè Chapter Eighteen ..................................................................................... 234 Siliceous Raw Material Exploitation at Hort De La Boquera Site (Margalef De Montsant, Tarragona, España): First Results from La-Icp-Ms Analysis Maria Rey-Solé, Anders Scherstén, Tomas Naeraa, Deborah Olausson, Xavier Mangado Chapter Nineteen ..................................................................................... 250 Compositional Analysis on Lithic Beads: The Case of the Lower Paraná Wetland, Argentina Natacha Buc, Romina Silvestre, Alejandro Acosta, Daniel Loponte Chapter Twenty ....................................................................................... 265 Flint Variability in a Cardial Context: A Preliminary Evaluation by Portable X-Ray Fluorescence of Artefacts from Cerradinho do Ginete (Portugal) António Faustino Carvalho, Telmo Pereira viii Table of Contents Chapter Twenty One................................................................................ 284 Flint Procurement and Transportation in the Middle Paleolithic in the North-Eastern Coast of Azov Sea (Preliminary Results) Ekaterina V. Doronicheva, Andrey G. Nedomolkin, Marianna A. Kulkova, Marina V. Gerasimenko Chapter Twenty Two ............................................................................... 305 Long Distance Obsidian Distribution and the Organisation of Palaeolithic Societies Theodora Moutsiou Chapter Twenty Three ............................................................................. 320 Raw Lithic Material Reservoirs or “Cache” Record in the Ecotonal Humid Dry Pampean Area, Argentina, as a Strategy for Supply and Territorial Marking Fernando Oliva Chapter Twenty Four ............................................................................... 336 Chert Acquisition in the Final Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: Territory Contraction in Southwestern France? Guilhem Constans Chapter Twenty Five ............................................................................... 354 Alpine Jades: From Scientific Analysis to Neolithic Know-How Pierre Pétrequin, Anne-Marie Pétrequin, Estelle Gauthier And Alison Sheridan Chapter Twenty Six ................................................................................. 368 Site Catchment Analysis and Human Behaviour during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Cantabrian Region. Coímbre Cave (Asturias, Spain) as a Case Study María De Andrés-Herrero, David Álvarez-Alonso, Álvaro Arrizabalaga, Daniel Becker, Gerd-Christian Weniger, José Yravedra Chapter Twenty Seven............................................................................. 382 A Spatial Approach to the Study of Competition between Toolstones in Specific Regional Contexts Gustavo Barrientos, Luciana Catella The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory ix Chapter Twenty Eight.............................................................................. 400 Distinguish the Similar: The Chemical Composition of Mineral Inclusions in the Ceramic Pastes as Tracer of the Source of Raw Materials Benjamin Gehres, Guirec Querré Chapter Twenty Nine .............................................................................. 414 The Technology of Neolithic Pottery North and South of the Western Carpathians Sławomir Kadrow, Anna Rauba-Bukowska Chapter Thirty ......................................................................................... 432 Technological Diversity of the Early Neolithic Pottery of the Muge Shellmiddens (Portugal): The Case Study of Cabeço da Amoreira Ruth Taylor, Daniel García Rivero, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho Chapter Thirty One .................................................................................. 449 Pottery for the Dead: Exploring Raw Material Exploitation in the Pottery of Can Gambús-1 (Sabadell, Catalonia) Miriam Cubas, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Carro, Jordi Roig, Joan Manuel Coll Rieratt, Juan Gibaja Chapter Thirty Two ................................................................................. 463 Raw Materials and their Use in the Making of Pottery from Basagain (Basque Country, Spain): Archaeological and Experimental Research Judit López De Heredia, Javier Peña Poza, Juan Félix Conde Moreno, Fernando Agua Martínez, Manuel García-Heras Chapter Thirty Three ............................................................................... 477 Technological and Functional Identification of Cooking Slabs: Evidence from the Bronze Age Pile Dwelling Settlement of Grotta di Pertosa (Salerno, Southern Italy) Delia Carloni, Felice Larocca, Levi Sara Tiziana, Valentina Cannavò Chapter Thirty Four ................................................................................. 492 Investigating the Source of Blue Color in Neolithic Beads from Barcin Höyük, Nw Turkey Ayşe Bursali, Hadi Özbal, Rana Özbal, Gülsu Şimşek, Bariş Yağci, Ceren Yilmaz Akkaya, Emma Baysal x Table of Contents Chapter Thirty Five ................................................................................. 506 Neolithic Materials and Materiality in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains Amy Richardson Chapter Thirty Six ................................................................................... 520 The Bead-Maker’s Toolkit: The Circulation of Drilling Technologies and Gemstones in the “Middle Asian Interaction Sphere” Federica Lume Pereira, Giuseppe Guida, Ulrike Müller, Massimo Vidale Chapter Thirty Seven ............................................................................... 538 The Sources of Some Obsidian Beads Found at Kish, Southern Iraq Stuart Campbell, Elizabeth Healey Chapter Thirty Eight ................................................................................ 549 Prehistoric Pigments in the Hungarian National Museum Katalin T. Biró, Tamás Váczi Chapter Thirty Nine ................................................................................. 560 The Geo-Mineralogical Approach in Ochre Provenance Studies Giovanni Cavallo, Maria Pia Riccardi, Roberto Zorzin Chapter Forty ........................................................................................... 572 Iron Oxide Artefacts in Late Prehistoric Corsica: Towards a PhysicoChemical Characterisation Marylyne Lambert, Robin Skates, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Stéphan Dubernet, Kewin Peche-Quilichini, Hélène Paolini-Saez, Jean Louis Milanini, Yannick Lefrais Chapter Forty One ................................................................................... 587 Finding Chemical and Physical Evidence of Heat Treatment of Ochre by Using Non-Destructive Methods: A Preliminary Study Marine Wojcieszak, Tammy Hodgskiss, Lyn Wadley Chapter Forty Two .................................................................................. 601 Experimental Implications for Flint Heat Treatment at Hasankeyf Höyük Osamu Maeda Chapter Forty Three ................................................................................ 613 Mechanical Experiments to Test Quartzite vs Chert Edge Reduction Telmo Pereira, João Marreiros, Eduardo Paixão, Rui Martins