Vein quartz as a raw material for prehistoric stone tools is a much maligned material, very
often treated to a cursory analysis only, if it is analysed at all. This paper examines the role of …

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 …

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 article explores the use of quartz as a raw material in the early prehistoric period in
Ireland. Archaeologists have invariably ignored quartz as a raw material because of its …

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 …

In the late 1970s, a substantial quartz assemblage was recovered from the Neolithic
settlement at Scord of Brouster, Shetland (NGR: HU 2560 5165). At the time, bipolar …

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 …

This paper considers some possible avenues for new research into the study of lithics for
British and Irish assemblages dating from the Mesolithic and Neolithic. While scholars have …

As one of the most resilient testaments to Neolithic activity in Ireland, it is perhaps with a little
surprise that one finds the chipped stone artefact repertoire of the island so thoroughly …