{"id":135,"date":"2013-05-04T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/?p=135"},"modified":"2013-05-04T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T17:21:00","slug":"flints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/04\/flints\/","title":{"rendered":"Flints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excavation is a small part of the archaeological process. We dig for a little while but spend much longer trying to figure out what our discoveries mean. Finds analysis is a big part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-excavation_analysis\" target=\"_blank\">post-excavation<\/a> work. Our flint assemblage was looked at by Dr Rob Young and this post is based on his analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Flints were used by prehistoric peoples for tools. They worked (or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knapping\" target=\"_blank\">knapped<\/a>) the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flint\" target=\"_blank\">flint<\/a> to produce edges that were sharper than surgical steel. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leics.gov.uk\/flint_id_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">wide variety of prehistoric stone tools<\/a> are known but the object illustrated below is a heavy and thick end scraper of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. It is roughly contemporary with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/04\/excavations-2012-week-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">ring-ditch<\/a> we dug in 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_136\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/Flint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/Flint-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/Flint-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/Flint-500x298.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/files\/2013\/05\/Flint.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flint scraper of Neolithic\/Bronze Age date \u00a9 Rob Young and the Lufton Project<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excavation is a small part of the archaeological process. We dig for a little while but spend much longer trying to figure out what our discoveries mean. Finds analysis is a big part of the post-excavation work. Our flint assemblage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/2013\/05\/04\/flints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excavations-2012","category-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/luftonarchaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}