S9A



S9A

Room 1.43

Digging deeper: Uncovering the people behind prehistoric flint and other georesource mining / Creuser plus profond : révéler les acteurs de l'exploitation minière préhistorique du silex et autres géoresources

Session organizers: The Members of the UISPP Commission “Flint Mining in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Times”

S9A, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 18:00, Room 1.43

9:00-9:20 - The impact of geological factors on flint sourcing and blade production in Portuguese Estremadura during the 3rd millennium BC / Jordão Patrícia, Morgado-Rodríguez Antonio, Neves César, Soares Sofia, Pimentel Nuno and Tarriño Antonio

9:20-9:40 - Skilled Artisanship and Everyday Life Lithic Production in the Later Prehistory of Central Iberia: Insights from the Copper Age Ditched Enclosure of Melgarejos (Getafe, Madrid) / Nuria Castañeda, Diego Herrero-Alonso, Juan F. Gibaja and Pedro Díaz-del-Río

9:40-10:00 - Coordinating Prehistoric Mining Through Sound: Shell Trumpets From The Neolithic Mines of Gavà (Catalonia, Spain) / Miquel López-Garcia and Margarita Díaz-Andreu

10:00-10:20 - People, Practices, and Resource Landscapes: Chert Exploitation, Geoarchaeology and Reference Frameworks in Northeastern Iberia / Bruno Gómez de Soler

10:20-10:40 - Geoarchaeological mapping of the Prehistoric Flint mining complex in the Sierra de Araico (North Spain) / Iñigo Orue, Antonio Tarriño, Iván Martín-Martín, Alberto Bandrés, Pedro Rut Jiménez-San, Aurea Murelaga, Diego Herrero-Alonso, Cristina López-Tascón, Hugo Hernández-Hernández, Nuria Castañeda and José Antonio Mujika

10:40-11:00 - Flint-mining Communities of the Late and Final Neolithic Period in the Saint-Gond Marshes Region (Marne, France) / Marie Imbeaux, Rémi Martineau, Fabien Langry-François, Françoise Bostyn, Françoise Affolter and Pierre-Yves Collin

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Digging Together: Community and Technical Traditions in the Neolithic Mons Basin Flint Mines (Belgium) / Jean-Philippe Collin

11:50-12:10 - Distribution networks for specialised stone tools from mining contexts in France at the end of the 5th millennium BCE: complexity, competition, and economic and social organisation / Françoise Bostyn

12:10-12:30 - Chronological and Socioeconomic Clarifications on the Neolithic Flint Mines of Normandy / François Charraud, Emmanuel Ghesquière amd Cyril Marcigny

12:30-12:50 - Divided landscapes: Approaches to Neolithic mining and settlement in the British Isles / Jon Bączkowski

12:50-13:10 - Not that deep? The Flint-Ways of Secondary Flint Quarries in the British Neolithic / Emmanuel La O Kirchner 

13:10-13:30 - The Establishment of Mine and Quarry Provinces and Districts: from Discovery, to Development and Recycling / Philip C. LaPorta, Scott A. Minchak, Margaret C. Brewer-LaPorta, Jason Ciccone and Saverio A. LaPorta

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Seasonality and labor organization in prehistoric copper mining: reassessing fire-setting exploitation rhythms in Western Europe / Céline Tomczyk and Christophe Petit

14:50-15:10 - Investigating chert mining strategies during the Old Kingdom: Insights from The Wadi Sannur mining complex (Eastern Desert, Egypt) / Pierre-Antoine Beauvais, François Briois, Aurore Ciavatti and Béatrix Midant-Reynes

15:10-15:30 - Digging from the other side. Analysing materials from the ‘chocolate’ flint mine in the Udorka Valley (South Poland) / Dagmara H. Werra, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena Malak and Hubert Binnebesel

15:30-15:50 - What Are All These Pits For… Reflections on the Uneconomical Foundations of Prehistoric Mining / Janusz Budziszewski, Dawid Jagłowski and Jakub Karczewski

15:50-16:10 - Traces of the Bell Beaker Culture in the Mining Workshops of Borownia / Michał Jan Szubski and Witold Migal

16:10-16:40 - Coffee break

/ Posters / 

16:40-17:15 - 1. Provenancing Bedrock Axe Quarries via Archived, Historical Site Surveys and Antiquarian Museum Collections / Philip C. LaPorta, Margaret C. Brewer-LaPorta and Scott A. Minchak

2. Across Landscapes: Raw Material Procurement in The Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition / Cassidy S. Heller, Patrick Schmidt, Andrzej Wiśniewski, Janusz Budziszewski and Witold Grużdź

3. Provenance Determination of Flint Artefacts: Combining Petrographic and Geochemical Methods on Chocolate Flint / Sara Mandera, Michael Brandl, Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk and Maciej Krajcarz

4. Different Times and Different Materials? A Comparative Study of Raw Materials at Neolithic and Chalcolithic Sites in Karabakh Steppe, Azerbaijan / Julia Kościuk-Załupka, Khagani Almamedov and Mark Iserlis

5. Miners - Keepers: A Story about Gawroniec Hill and Two Flint Mines (Krzemionki and Świeciechów) / Dagmara H. Werra, Jean-Philippe Collin, Françoise Bostyn, Artur Jedynak and Sławomir Sałaciński

17:25-18:00 - 6. Preliminary Results of an Experimental Excavation Method for Investigating Mining Heaps – Fieldwork at Krzemionki, Ostrowiec County / Michał Jan Szubski and Witold Migal

7. Camino del Negralejo. New Site at the Casa Montero-Los Cerros Mining Complex (Madrid) / Nuria Castañeda, Fernando Tapias Gómez, Cristina Cabrera Taravillo, Ana Díaz Olías, Raúl Márquez González and José Polo López

8. The problem of locating and repositioning flint workshops from the mine in Poręba Dzierżna (site 24, southern Poland). Conclusions and hypotheses / Hubert Binnebesel and Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk

9. Changes in flint technology in the Lower Odra region during the 6th to 3rd millennia BC / Marcin Michał Dziewanowski

10. Limestone Quarries of Bhima Basin, India: Ethno-Archaeological Case Study of Hard-Hammer Extraction at a Direct-Access Bedrock Quarry / Philip C. LaPorta, Margaret C. Brewer-LaPorta and Scott A. Minchak