Neolithic bone shovels of Britain: replication and reflection of a neglected artefact type
The earliest industrial monuments in Britain are the Neolithic flint mines, dating 7gm pravana to around 4000 bce.These mining shafts, which tunnel deep into chalk geologies, evidence the extremes that ancient Britons were willing to resort to in order to obtain valuable raw materials.Numerous scholars, marvelling at the excavation processes and ha