Edited by Pierre Allard, FranCoise Bostyn, FranCois Giligny and Jacek Lech

This book includes papers from the Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe session held at European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Cracow, Poland, 19th-24th September 2006.

Cette monographie se propose de realiser la synthese des travaux menes entre 2000 et 2010 sur les productions de haches dans la vallee de la Seine a l'ouest de Paris. Le premier chapitre presente l'historiques des recherches, le cadre chrono-culturel et situe ces productions au sein de celles du Bassin parisien. Le second chapitre presente le cadre de l'etude et la documentation. La miniere de Flins-sur-Seine, lieu d'extraction et de production de haches en silex bartonien, fournit l'essentiel de la documentation et est presentee dans le troisieme chapitre. Elle est connue par de nombreuses...

Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe presents the results of the UISPP Commission, Flint Mining in Pre- and Protohistoric Europe. It offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The eighteen articles were contributed by archaeologists from ten countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden – using the same framework in order to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon. At the same time the book reflects various research methods and traditions. Each article deals successively with the...