Le marteau sonnait sur l’enclume
Typologie et fonction de l’outillage en pierre des premiers métallurgistes en France atlantique
By (author) Linda Boutoille
Hardback (Published)
(November 2025)
ISBN: 9781805831310
8.31 x 11.69 inches
Price: $84.00
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This research investigates stone tools used in metalworking, like hammers and anvils, previously undocumented in France. Over 100 tools were identified, mainly along the Atlantic coast. A new typology compares them to metal tools, offering insights into their function and role in early metal production.
The objective of this research was to understand the stone tools associated with the plastic deformation of metals, commonly referred to as hammers and anvils. For these tools, still largely unknown, there was no inventory in France in 2008, and only four tools recognized as such appeared in the French bibliography. Starting from the few known examples, significant investigative work within the collections of public or private museums, mainly along the Atlantic coast, initially led to the identification of more than a hundred tools, most of which were unpublished. This work continued in the museums of the East and South of France, but the tools seem rarer there and difficult to locate within sometimes ancient collections. The research focused on three aspects: understanding the function of these tools, to place them within the chaines operatoires of metal and to understand their links with metal tools. In this context, a functional typology of these lithic tools has been developed based on the typology of their metal counterparts to allow for a better comparison of the performances of both series of tools dedicated to metalworking. The publication of this work will present as complete an inventory as possible of the stone tools from the Atlantic facade of Europe.
Préface
Remerciements
Introduction
Histoire de la recherche et sources documentaires
Les cadres géographiques et chronologiques de l’étude
Des outils et des hommes : les contextes de découvertes
Typologie et fonctions de l’outillage
Entre le marteau et l’enclume : la place des outils lithiques au sein de la chaîne opératoire du métal
En guise de bilan
Quelques perspectives
Catalogue
Bibliographie
Index
Index toponymique (sites en France)
Index toponymique (sites hors de France)
Index des musées et collections
Linda Boutoille has a PhD in archaeology from the Université de Bourgogne and is currently Research Fellow based at Queen’s University. She has held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, a Royal Irish Academy Research Grant, a British Academy Research Grant and more recently a Gerda Henkel Research Grant. Her main research interests lie with both the technological and organisational aspects of prehistoric craft activities, and of Bronze Age metalwork production in particular.
- By (author) Linda Boutoille
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