CONTENTS

I. Dating and Scientific Techniques

Introduction to Science-based stone artefact studies. Mike Tite

A guide TL dating flint assemblages. Nick Debenham

The possibility of dating lithics from diffused nitrogen profiles. Robert Hedges and Stewart Freeman

Does ore petrography have a practical role in the finger-printing of rocks? Robert Ixer

Erratic survival: blood on stones. Cristina Cattaneo, Keith Gelsthorpe, Phil Dixon, John Gale, Pat Phillips and Robert Sokol

Dating of Lower Palaeolithic industries within the framework of the lower Thames terrace sequence. David Bridgland

II. Raw Materials and Petrology

Introduction: raw materials and petrology - an overview. John Wymer

Cornish axes factories: fact or fiction? Peter Berridge

Exploitation of lithic resources for stone tools in earlier prehistoric Scotland. Alan Saville

The exploitation of flint in the Monti Lessini, northern Italy. Lawrence Barfield

III. Resource Management

Pedaling the management cycle: resource management and the role of the Lithic Studies Society. Andrew Brown

Looking back with regret; looking forward with optimism: making the more of surface lithic scatters. A.J. Schofield

Binford's hyperbole: the curation of flintwork. Robin Holgate

Managing the Palaeolithic heritage: looking backwards, looking forward. F.F. Wenban-Smith

IV. Technology and Use Wear Analysis

Introduction: some technological thoughts on squeezing blood from stones. Nick Barton

The life and death of a Boxgrove biface. Louise Austin

Sourthern Aegean fashion victims: an over-looked aspect of Early Bronze Age burial practices. Tristan Carter

From functional interpretation to cultural choices in tool uses: the behaviour-function link. Linda Hurcombe

The current state of lithic microwear research. Randolph Donahue

The technology of the perforated mace-heads of Orkney. Rachel Ransom

V. Typology

Typology: the maker's or the analyst's? Frances Healy

Bifaces in perspective. Nick Ashton and John McNabb

Mesolithic radiocardon dates: a first review of some recent results. Roger Jacobi

A stylistic analysis of ten early Mesolithic sites in south-east England. Michael Reynier

Wawcott XXX: an interim report on a Mesolithic site in Berkshire. Roy Froom, Jill Cook, Nick Bebenham and Janet Ambers

Towards a definition of the Irish early Neolithic lithic assemblages. Peter Woodman