Interpreting the Axe Trade - Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain

Informationen zum Autor Richard Bradley and Ann Ellison with John Barrett & John Evans Klappentext Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Zusammenfassung Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies! the authors explore some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological discussions of exchange at both a theoretical and a methodological level. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part I. Neolithic Britain and the Study of Exchange Systems: 1. Making the connections; 2. Neolithic Britain - background to the case study; 3. Studying stone axe in Neolithic Britain; Part II. Axe Production in the Cumbrian Mountains: 4. Tackling the problem at source; 5. Establishing a methodology; 6. Test excavations at Great Langdale; 7. Great Langdale in its regional context; Part III. Exchange Systems and the Study of Neolithic Britain: 8. The wider significance of the 'axe trade': the Earlier Neolithic; 9. The wider significance of the 'axe trade': the Later Neolithic; 10. Retrospect; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Bradley, Richard (University of Reading) Edmonds Bradley, Richard Edmonds Bradley, Mark Edmonds
• Con la collaborazione di: Colin Renfrew (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619370
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61937-0
• Pagine: 252
• Serie: New Studies in Archaeology
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria, mondo antico; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria