Micro-blade production on hyaline quartz during the Late Neolithic of northern Greece (5400–4600 cal. B.C.): Examples from Dikili Tash and Promachonas-Topolniča

Tardy, Nicolas; Vosges, Jérémie; Varoutsikos, Bastien

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.139

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“…Quartz has been used as an amulet, acquiring a sacred character in Neolithic, possibly due to its resistance to weathering, frequent transparency and chromatic homogeneity. As well as due to its crystallization in the hexagonal and trigonal system, being able to form hexagonal bipyramids [51]. Quartz has also been a mineral used to create fire.…”

Section: Stones and Religionmentioning

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The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

Freire-Lista

2021

Heritage

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Human activity has required, since its origins, stones as raw material for carving, construction and rock art. The study, exploration, use and maintenance of building stones is a global phenomenon that has evolved from the first shelters, manufacture of lithic tools, to the construction of houses, infrastructures and monuments. Druids, philosophers, clergymen, quarrymen, master builders, naturalists, travelers, architects, archaeologists, physicists, chemists, curators, restorers, museologists, engineers and geologists, among other professionals, have worked with stones and they have produced the current knowledge in heritage stones. They are stones that have special significance in human culture. In this way, the connotation of heritage in stones has been acquired over the time. That is, the stones at the time of their historical use were simply stones used for a certain purpose. Therefore, the concept of heritage stone is broad, with cultural, historic, artistic, architectural, and scientific implications. A historical synthesis is presented of the main events that marked the use of stones from prehistory, through ancient history, medieval times, and to the modern period. In addition, the main authors who have written about stones are surveyed from Ancient Roman times to the middle of the twentieth century. Subtle properties of stones have been discovered and exploited by artists and artisans long before rigorous science took notice of them and explained them.

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Section: Stones and Religionmentioning

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The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

Freire-Lista

2021

Heritage

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“…This archeological abundance does not occur in the same way for hyaline quartz crystals; however, they have been used as raw materials for lithic assemblages in certain regions as central Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Greece, and Portugal (i.e., in Refs. [39][40][41][42][43][44]). On the other hand, this material has been interpreted with functions associated with the symbolic, votive aspect, as part of funeral garments, in megalithic constructions, or used by the shamans for their possible magical powers (i.e., e.g., [45][46][47][48][49]).…”

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Sociocultural Interaction and Symbolism in Prehistoric South America: Quartz Crystal Manuports from Tierra del Fuego

Mansur¹,

Angelis²,

Parmigiani³

et al. 2020

Pleistocene Archaeology - Migration, Technology, and Adaptation

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The use of mineral elements with special characteristics, such as quartz crystals, in ornamental or ceremonial contexts, is not uncommon in archaeology. Their appearance in different archaeological sites is the basis to discuss their significance for past societies. However, while these objects are loaded with symbolic value, it is difficult to identify them in hunter-gatherer sites. In this chapter, we discuss this subject from the case of a series of crystals discovered in the central area of the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego, and we outline their interpretation based on technofunctional analysis confronted with the ethnographic information for the region. Tierra del Fuego is located at the southern tip of South America. It was inhabited by hunter-gatherer societies since the end of last glaciation until the beginning of the twentieth century. In historical times, the central-northern sector of the Big Island was occupied by the Selknam society, in which there is an extensive ethnographic and ethnohistorical bibliography. Archaeological research in the central area of Tierra del Fuego has revealed a continuous occupation of hunter-gatherer societies. The analysis of provenience of raw materials lets us to propose hypothesis about mobility and interaction networks that can be confronted with the ethnographic information.

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“…2013; Tardy et al . 2016). The Howiesons Poort (65–62 ka) and Still Bay (~71 ka) industries at Sibudu Cave and Umhlatuzana rockshelter in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province contain important examples (Delagnes et al .…”

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“…More recent knapping experiments (e.g. Tardy et al 2016) add punch and pressure flaking to this list. The same general strategies apply to automorphic quartz crystals (or quartz single crystals), albeit in slightly different configurations.…”

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“…Archaeological examples of quartz crystal reduction extend from the Pleistocene to the last use of chipped stone in the protohistoric period (e.g. Stow 1905;Flenniken 1981;Wadley 1987;Tardy et al 2016;Bagley 2013;Márquez et al 2013) In the New World, archaeologists have recorded the presence of quartz crystal in archaeological assemblages from the high Arctic to South America (Reher & Frison 1991). In Mexico, the El Fin de Mundo site (c. 13.3 ka BP) has yielded several quartz crystal points and debris (Sanchez et al 2014), while the Hoko River site (c. 2.5 ka BP) in Washington State preserved hafted quartz crystal bladelets (Flenniken 1981).…”

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Quartz crystal materiality in Terminal Pleistocene Lesotho

Pargeter

Hampson

2019

Antiquity

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Micro-blade production on hyaline quartz during the Late Neolithic of northern Greece (5400–4600 cal. B.C.): Examples from Dikili Tash and Promachonas-Topolniča

Cited by 11 publications

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The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

Sociocultural Interaction and Symbolism in Prehistoric South America: Quartz Crystal Manuports from Tierra del Fuego

Quartz crystal materiality in Terminal Pleistocene Lesotho

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