Abingdon Before…

Introduction to Abingdon’s archaeology from Palaeolithic Thames hunter-gatherers through to the Romans

Week 1  Illustrated talk – scene setting giving an overview of:

·        Palaeolithic landscape

·        Neolithic Abingdon

·        Iron Age settlement

·        Roman & Saxon continuity

Flint: From Stone to tool

Focus: Core prehistoric skill

Learn:

• How to identify flakes, cores, scrapers

• How to recognise struck flint - made by our ancestors

• How flint was worked

• How archaeologists read stone

• Why most finds are flakes, not tools