Flint Tools and Plant Working Hidden Traces of Stone Age Technology A Use Wear Study of Some Danish Mesolithic and Trb Implements

The functional analysis of flint tool edges using High Power Microscopy has allowed a great increase in the information that can de derived from stone tools. Founded on this method, this study concerns stone tool functions in the Danish Late Mesolithic Ertebolle culture, as well as in the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (the TRB). It focuses on evidence of prehistoric plant working, and the lacquer-like sheen or use wear known as 'gloss'. The first part of the book discusses the methodology and some problems of interpretation, whilst the second discusses the manufacturing of implements, and the analysis of use wear on TRB sickles. A resume in Danish is also included.Jensen, Helle J. is the author of 'Flint Tools and Plant Working Hidden Traces of Stone Age Technology A Use Wear Study of Some Danish Mesolithic and Trb Implements' with ISBN 9788772884547 and ISBN 8772884541.