Lithics Special Volume: Past Lives From Cold Stone: 30 Years Of The Lithic Studies Society [Editorship]

Abstract

Taking on the editorship of Lithics in the aftermath of both Great Prehistorians and Rob Hosfield's ruthlessly efficient reign as editor has been something of a baptism of fire! Not only have we felt that we have an awful lot to live up to, considering Rob's efforts to bring Lithics back up to date, but the excellent contributions that made up the last volume have attracted a lot of papers from contributors new to the pages of Lithics. Not content with the challenge this already presented, we then decided to include papers based on the excellent 30th anniversary conference held in Oxford in January 2010. This Past Lives from Cold Stone special volume, then, again constitutes something of a bumper issue; it is fortunate, therefore, that in our first attempt at editing Lithics we were joined by the conference organisers as co-editors; Hugo Lamdin-Whymark, Cate Frieman, Matt Pope and Barry Bishop. We are enormously thankful to them for all their help with the reviewing process, and to Cate in particular for taking charge of this part of the volume. . . . Show more