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In search of Hindsgavl: experiments in the production of Neolithic Danish flint daggers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Stafford
Michael Stafford*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Cranbrook Institute of science, 1221 North Woodward Avenue, P.O. Box 801, Bloomfield Hills MI 48303-0801, USA. michael_stafford@cc.cranbrook.edu
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Abstract

Few chipped stone artefacts from prehistory were as technically complex as the flint daggers of Late Neolithic Denmark. Here Michael Stafford present a study that examines, through experimental archaeology, many aspects of dagger production.

Keywords

DenmarkNeolithicBell BeakerBronze Ageflint daggerreductioncraft specialization
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998 , pp. 338 - 349
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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