Flint mining in prehistory recorded by in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be

G. Verri; Ran Barkai; C. Bordeanu; Abraham Gopher; M. Hass; A. Kaufman; P. Kubik; E. Montanari; M. Paul; A. Ronen; S. Weiner; E. Boaretto

doi:10.1073/pnas.0402302101

Flint mining in prehistory recorded by in situ-produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be

G. Verri, Ran Barkai, C. Bordeanu, Abraham Gopher, M. Hass, A. Kaufman, P. Kubik, E. Montanari, M. Paul, A. Ronen, S. Weiner, E. Boaretto^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7880-7884
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	101
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0402302101
State	Published - 21 May 2004

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