When Metal met Stone : Searching for traces of metal tool utilization during the production of Late Neolithic Nordic Flint Daggers
Strand Tanner, H. E. Gregory · 2015
This paper deals with the Late Neolithic Nordic Flint Daggers excavated from the gallery grave at Utbogarden, Vastergotland County, Sweden. Studies were undertaken in order to gain more understanding regarding the production processes and types of tools utilized during production/reduction, which can be assigned to certain specific, well preserved examples of these daggers. The results of these studies, in turn, will be able to shed light on the processes involved in producing Late Neolithic daggers in general, regardless of their individual states of preservation. This will be attempted by means of experimental flint knapping, comparative microscopic analysis, and chemical analysis.