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In the year 1948 in the village Sapaniw near Krzemieniec a 191 flints for flintlock guns were collected. Among them there were both correctly made and failed examples. The collection is kept by the National Historical and Cultural... more
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Due to airborne laser scanning (ALS, LiDAR), the study of flint mines with anthropogenic mining relief has become easier. In recent years, the Institute of Archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw has been... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyLiDARFlint (Archaeology)
Slav population started to systematically settle on the territory of Severskiy Donets middle valley from XVI—XVII centuries. The main part of the population lived in military encampments. The development of the region under permanent... more
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      ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Flintlock FirearmsGunflints History
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      Experimental ArchaeologyCeltic StudiesRock Art (Archaeology)Palaeolithic Archaeology
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      Gunflints HistoryAncient Coins, Antiques: Fakes and Reproductions
Gunflint production variability and its association with specific manufacturing locations have been used as mechanisms for understanding distribution networks between Euro-pean powers, Indigenous peoples, and settlers in the... more
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      Lithic TechnologyLithicsLithic Technology (Archaeology)Lithic Analysis
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      Napoleonic WarsNapoleonic EuropeNapoleonic HistoryGunflints History
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Настоящая работа продолжает исследование кремневого хозяйства Нового времени Восточной Европы. Для решения этой задачи анализируются материалы Черкасской крепости (Черкасского казачьего городка) XVII-XVIII в. на Нижнем Дону. Были учтены... more
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      ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)CossacksGunflints History
The Flintlock Phenomenon. The Gunflints from Wawel Hill as a Reflection of Gunflint Production in the Austrian Monarchy The flintlock developed over centuries-long evolution of the firearms, starting from the onset of the 13th century.... more
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      Military HistoryArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyMaterial Culture Studies
Gunflints: An Introductory Bibliography. In: Gunflints – beyond the British and French empires. Occasional newsletter from an informal working group. New series, No. 6 August 2015... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyMaterial Culture StudiesBibliography
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      European HistoryNapoleonic WarsLithicsPost-Medieval Archaeology
Studie byla publikována roku 2018 v časopise ,,Archeologické výzkumy v jižních Čechách", (ročník 31) / The study was published in 2018 in the journal ,,Archaeological Research in South Bohemia" (volume 31). This article presents an... more
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A few gunflints and a fire-flint discovered in Lemnos and the Pindus mountains of Western Macedonia (Greevce) are described ofor the first time and their provenance and manufacture are discussed
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Spośród licznych skał krzemionkowych występujących na terytorium naszego kraju jedynie jurajskie krzemienie z Jury Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej wykorzystywane były na większą skalę do produkcji skałek pistoletowych i karabinowych. Tylko one... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyLiDAR
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A relevant gunflints handicraft (both for firearms or strike-a-light) was developed, during the XVIII-XIX centuries, in the Lessini Mountains, where hundreds of workshop traces are still preserved, sometimes including the whole operatory... more
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      Neolithic ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)LithicsIrish Archaeology
Аннотация. В современной исторической науке не ослабевает интерес к изучению систем вооружения, в том числе огнестрельного оружия Нового времени с фитильными и кремневыми запальными батареями. Этот интерес сопровождается новыми находками... more
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      HistoryисториографияGunflints Historyоружиеведение
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      Napoleonic WarsLithicsNapoleonic EuropeAncient Shipwrecks
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      PaleontologyEnvironmental microbiologyScienceCyanobacteria
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      Scottish HistoryNapoleonic WarsEarly Modern ScotlandNapoleonic Europe
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      Paleolithic EuropeEarly Neolithic, Middle Neolithic, Late NeolithicGunflints History
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Tansen is small green place near the village of Lughezzano (central Lessini Mountains, Verona/Italy), where late prehistoric traces (the so called “campignian” flint tools, which diffusion characterize the III millennium BC almost... more
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      Neolithic & Chalcolithic ArchaeologyEcomuseologyMicrotoponymyGunflints History
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      European HistoryNapoleonic WarsLithicsPost-Medieval Archaeology
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      European HistoryNapoleonic WarsLithicsPost-Medieval Archaeology
This  work  is  devoted  to  show,  based  on  an  andalusian  case  of  study,  the  general  processes  through  which  gunflint production can  be  undestood  and  explained.
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The river Severskiy Donets is a large right-bank tributary of the river Don, a major waterway of the East-European plain. The middle section of the river divides two natural and climatic zones ‒ steppe and forest-steppe. Active... more
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      Flint (Archaeology)FortressesGunflints HistoryGunflints
Статья посвящена проблеме идентификации ружейных кремней в комплексах Нового времени. Ружейные кремни являются специфическим видом исторических и археологических источников. Распространение этих изделий целиком связано с распространением... more
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      ArchaeologyBattlefield ArchaeologyFlint (Archaeology)Crimea
Throughout the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, flint became a strategic raw material due to its use in the manufacture of gunflints for different firearms. The Spanish army obtained a large part of its supplies from... more
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      Flint (Archaeology)Archaeology of MiningMining HistoryLithic Technology (Archaeology)
A sample from a stockpile of gunflints discarded by the Nepalese military in the early to middle 1800s shows that although Nepal obtained most of its munitions from Britain, the situation was complex. The Nepalese rapidly learned to... more
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      Military HistoryHistorical ArchaeologyHistory of Military TechnologyLithic Technology
As the Bronze Age came to its end and the Iron Age began, flint ceased to be the key material for making tools, supplanted by iron for centuries to come. Flintstone lost its previous significance yet remained in use, contrary to the... more
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      EthnoarchaeologyFire HistoryEthimologyGunflints History
На протяжении XVII–XVIII вв. крепость Азов играла исключительно важную роль в геополитике Российского государства и Османской империи. Культурные слои Азова XVII–XVIII вв. значительно пострадали в результате неоднократного разрушения... more
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      ArchaeologyGunflints HistoryGunflintsfire-steel flints
Новое время в европейских странах происходит анимация кремнеобработки. В основном это было связано с широким распространением огнестрельного оружия с кремневыми запальными батареями. Продвижение Российской державы в Азово-Черноморский... more
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