TY - JOUR
T1 - Flint mining in prehistory recorded by in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be
AU - Verri, G.
AU - Barkai, R.
AU - Bordeanu, C.
AU - Gopher, A.
AU - Hass, M.
AU - Kaufman, A.
AU - Kubik, P.
AU - Montanari, E.
AU - Paul, M.
AU - Ronen, A.
AU - Weiner, S.
AU - Boaretto, E.
PY - 2004/5/21
Y1 - 2004/5/21
N2 - The development of mining to acquire the best raw materials for producing stone tools represents a breakthrough in human technological and intellectual development. We present a new approach to studying the history of flint mining, using in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be concentrations. We show that the raw material used to manufacture flint artifacts ≈300,000 years old from Qesem Cave (Israel) was most likely surface-collected or obtained from shallow quarries, whereas artifacts of the same period from Tabun Cave (Israel) were made of flint originating from layers 2 or more meters deep, possibly mined or quarried by humans.
AB - The development of mining to acquire the best raw materials for producing stone tools represents a breakthrough in human technological and intellectual development. We present a new approach to studying the history of flint mining, using in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be concentrations. We show that the raw material used to manufacture flint artifacts ≈300,000 years old from Qesem Cave (Israel) was most likely surface-collected or obtained from shallow quarries, whereas artifacts of the same period from Tabun Cave (Israel) were made of flint originating from layers 2 or more meters deep, possibly mined or quarried by humans.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/2542622130
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0402302101
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0402302101
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AN - SCOPUS:2542622130
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 101
SP - 7880
EP - 7884
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 21
ER -