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Getting to the core of the problem: petrological results from the Irish Stone Axe Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gabriel Cooney  and
Stephen Mandal
Gabriel Cooney
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
Stephen Mandal
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Abstract

When a distribution map of Neolithic stone axes in Ireland was published in ANTIQUITY (Grogan & Cooney 1990), the new Irish Stone Axe Project (ISAP) was mentioned. Stone axes, it turns out, are unusually common in Ireland. Here Project progress is outlined, with special attention being given to those axes identified as having been moved across the Irish Sea.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 969 - 980
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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