Worldwide, vein quartz was a commonly used raw material for stone tools but this material
has proved difficult for archaeologists to analyse because many quartz assemblages appear …

The use of quartz as a raw material for chipped stone tools was widespread in Irish
prehistory but a traditional focus by archaeologists on flint, and the use of a flint framework …

Quartz is one of the main raw materials used by prehistoric communities from the Lower
Palaeolithic to the Holocene. There have been difficulties in developing a proper …

Despite its worldwide use as a stone tool raw material, quartz is known to be a difficult
material for archaeologists. The main reason for this is the tendency of quartz flakes to …

It is generally recognized that, in the Stone and Bronze Ages of Scotland, numerous different
lithic raw materials were used for the manufacture of tools (Saville 1994). While there are …

This paper discusses an assemblage of worked and smashed quartz associated with a
Bronze Age kerbed cairn at Olcote. Most analytical treatments of quartz in Scottish prehistory …

Abstract The project Quartz Technology in Scottish Prehistory was initiated in the year 2000,
and over the following five years a large number of quartz assemblages were examined …

Prehistoric quartz assemblages have always posed a special problem for archaeologists.
Due to its brittle nature, quartz is hard to understand within lithic classification systems that …

Worldwide, vein quartz was used as a raw material for stone tools, and in many regions
quartz was the dominant raw material, if not the only raw material. While using quartz was …

In 2002, an examination was carried out of a small quartz vein at the knoll of Cnoc Dubh, a
few hundred metres from the southern shores of Loch Ceann Hulabhig on the Isle of Lewis …