Mining and Quarrying in Neolithic Europe
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Anne Teather specialises in the European Neolithic. She has worked extensively on prehistoric chalk artefacts and she has pioneered new approaches to material culture studies. She is currently directing a field project at Tenants Hill, Dorset, with her non-profit community archaeology company 'Past Participate'. Peter Topping is a visiting fellow at Newcastle University, following a career as a landscape archaeologist in RCHME and English Heritage where he researched Neolithic flint mines, causewayed enclosures, henges and the Stonehenge landscape. He has participated in fieldwork led by the US National Park Service in Ohio and Minnesota, and excavated at the Hoshikuso Pass obsidian quarries in Nagawa, Japan. He is currently directing a project on prehistoric quarries in the Northumberland Cheviots. Jon Baczkowski is a senior field officer with the ASL contracting unit and is studying for his PhD on flint mining at the University of Southampton . He specialises in prehistoric lithic identification and flint resources and extraction sites.