Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond

A fascination with mundane things. A retrospective of the life and career of Professor Annelou van Gijn
Annemieke Verbaas & Ben Chan

Forty years on: Functional analysis of stone artefacts and the Annelou Van Gijn – Australian connection
Richard Fulagar &Judith Field

Wear formation on shell ornaments: mechanical and actualistic experiments, two complementary approaches
Leïla Hoareau & Sylvie Beyries

Conifer tar in the late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of north-western Europe
Geeske H.J. Langejans, Diederik Pomstra, Thierry Ducrocq, Antony Haskins & Paul R.B. Kozowyk

Vlaardingen culture or Stein group? From object biographies to communities of practice
Lasse van den Dikkenberg

If flint axes were so valuable, were axe fragments used as ‘small change’? Some insights on the exchange of flint axes and axe-flint in the Vlaardingen settlements of the Dutch coastal region
Rob Houkes

Diverging productions or not? A preliminary exploration of the chemical composition of Neolithic Vlaardingen Pottery
Dennis Braekmans

Colouring the past. Two remarkable finds of Lousberg flint in the Low Countries
Luc Amkreutz & Leo Verhart

A small camp-site of the Late Mesolithic in the Scheldt valley: results of an integrated analysis
Éva Halbrucker & Philippe Crombé

Ask the stones. Harvesting technologies from the Early Neolithic site of La Marmotta (Lake of Bracciano, Italy)
Juan F. Escuela Gibaja, Niccolò Mazzucco, Bernard Gassin, Denis Guilbeau, Gerard Remolins & Mario Mineo

What points can tell. Artefact biographies of barbed bone and antler points from Mesolithic Doggerland
Merel Spithoven, Joannes Dekker & Alessandro Aleo

Reconstructing the biographies of querns within Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy-Villeneuve-Saint-Germain households through technological and use-wear analysis
Caroline Hamon

Object histories in prehistoric Britain: a stone macehead from the West Kennet Avenue occupation site, southern Britain
Christina Tsoraki, Richard E Bevins, Rob Ixer, Nick Pearce, Joshua Pollard & Ben Chan

Flint superblades – biography and function: A case study from Bulgaria
Maria Gurova

Things objects can do. Taking an itinerary approach to artefact biographies for utilizing the cognitive, social and emotional magic of historical objects for contemporary society
Monique H. van den Dries & Yvonne M.J. Lammers-Keijsers