| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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Archaeopress archaeology |
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Archaeopress archaeology.
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| Contents |
Preface and acknowledgements; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Re-connecting British and continental research traditions: dynamic approaches to the relationship between axe-heads and identity; Chapter Three: 'Afterlives'; Chapter Four: An investigation into the contexts of jade axe-heads found in Britain, using GIS terrain modelling of HER data; Chapter Five: 'Projet Breton' and the search for Group X; Chapter Six: 'Crudwell' type, 'Smerrick' type, and marbled all-over-polished axe-heads in Neolithic Britain; Chapter Seven: The rectangular-sectioned axe-head in Britain and its implications for understanding the Neolithic; Chapter Eight: Answering the original questions; Appendix One: Table of all known published jade axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations (correct until 2017). Shaded in grey are axe-heads with 'precise' find-spot locations, included in Appendix Two); Appendix Two: Find-spot locations, and archaeology of Mesolithic to Roman date within a 1000m radius, for 43 jade axe-heads found in Britain, presented as 41 GIS terrain models with accompanying text; Appendix Three: A table of all known Group X axe-heads and a table of Breton fibrolite axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations; Appendix Four: Table of all published 'Crudwell-Smerrick' type axe-heads; Appendix Five: Table of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed. Highlighted in grey are axe-heads of probable Scandinavian origin. This is a summary of the information presented in Appendix Six; Appendix Six: Corpus of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed (summarised in Appendix Five); Appendix Seven: Caches and hoards of axe-heads in Britain. Please note, almost all of the data included in this corpus has been taken directly from Pitts 1996, Appendix One, with a few additions by the author; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This volume seeks to re-assess the significance accorded to the body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent which have until now often been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 2, 2018) |
| Subject |
Axes, Prehistoric -- Great Britain
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Neolithic period -- Great Britain
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Civilization, Classical.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Civilization, Classical
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Axes, Prehistoric
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Civilization
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Civilization, Ancient
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Neolithic period
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056619
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Archaeopress, publisher.
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| ISBN |
1784917451 |
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9781784917456 |
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