Stone Tools & Society
Seiten
1995
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-21449-0 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-21449-0 (ISBN)
Stone tools are the most durable and, in some cases, the only category of material evidence that students of prehistory have at their disposal. Exploring the changing character and context of stone tools in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, Mark Edmonds examines the varied ways in which these artefacts were caught up in the fabric of past social life. Key themes include:stone tool procurement and production * the nature of technological traditions * stone tools and social identity * the nature of exchange and the significance of depositional practices. As well as contributing to current debate about the interpretation of material culture, Dr. Edmonds uses the evidence of stone tools to reconsider some of the major horizons of change in later British prehistory.From the production of tools at spectacularly located quarries to their ceremonial burial or destruction at ritual monuments, this well-illustrated study demonstrates that our understanding of these varied and sometimes enigmatic artefacts requires a concern with their social, as well as their practical dimensions.
Edmonds, Mark
Chapter 1 Squeezing blood from stones; Chapter 2 Technologies of the Earlier Neolithic; Chapter 3 Contexts for production and exchange in the Earlier Neolithic; Chapter 4 Sermons in stone; Chapter 5 Stone in the age of metal; Chapter 6 The place of stone in Early Bronze Age Britain; Chapter 7 The erosion of stone;
Verlagsort | London |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
Gewicht | 660 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
Technik ► Maschinenbau | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-21449-1 / 0415214491 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-21449-0 / 9780415214490 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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