“…There now exists a significant body of published literature on this subject, both from Europe (e.g., Saville 1981aSaville , 1981bFord et al1984;Ford 1987;Heme 1991;Martial1994;Edmonds 1995;Young and Humphrey 1999;Hogberg 2001Hogberg , 2004Knarrstrom 2001;van Gijn and Niekus 2001;Ballin 2002;Humphrey 2003Humphrey , 2004Humphrey , 2007Martingell 2003;Migal2004;Butler 2005;Bishop 2006) and elsewhere (e.g., Rosen 1984Rosen , 1996Rosen , 1997Kardulias 2003). Subjected to increasingly detailed and sophisticated analyses, later Bronze and Iron Age chipped stone tool assemblages have begun to provide valuable insights into the relative importance -functional and social -of chipped stone versus metal in later prehistory.…”