Search for: [Abstract = %22Fieldwork in the mid%5C-1980s at Neolithic flint%5C-mining sites in West Sussex investigated previously unknown flint%5C-working areas at both Long Down and Harrow Hill%2C showing that axeheads were the main product at both sites. Since then%2C the revision of radiocarbon dates using Bayesian analysis has revolutionised our understanding of the Neolithic period in Britain%2C demonstrating that flint mines are amongst the earliest known Neolithic sites in southern England%5C: they appear sometime after mining took place on adjacent parts of the European continent and before causewayed enclosures were first constructed in southern England. Axeheads fabricated at the flint%5C-mining sites were used as votive offerings%2C part of the interdependent belief system associated with Carinated Bowl pottery and cereal horticulture that was characteristic of the earliest Neolithic %E2%80%98horizon%E2%80%99 in southern England. Both were probably introduced by small%5C-scale movements of farmers across the Channel from the European continent%22]

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