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1 online resource (572 pages) |
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Prehistoric society research paper, 2040-5049 ; no. 4 |
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Prehistoric Society research paper ; no. 4.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Abstract; French Language Abstract; German Language Abstract; Acknowledgements; Editors' Preface.; Foreword.; 1. Case and Place for the British Chalcolithic; 2. Drawing Boundaries and Building Models: investigating the concept of the 'Chalcolithic frontier' in north-west Europe; 3. A Rumsfeld Reality Check: what we know, what we don't know and what we don't know we don't know about the Chalcolithic in Britain and Ireland |
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4. Before 29Cu became Copper: tracing the recognition and invention of metalleity in Britain and Ireland during the 3rd millennium BC5. The Importance of Being Insular: Britain and Ireland in their north-western European context during the 3rd millennium BC; 6. Sense and Non-sense of the term 'Chalcolithic'; 7. Growth and Expansion: social, economic and ideological structures in the European Chalcolithic; 8. Dutchmen on the Move? A discussion of the adoption of the Beaker package |
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9. Working Copper in the Chalcolithic: a long term perspective on the development of metallurgical knowledge in central Europe and the Carpathian Basin10. Chronology, Corpses, Ceramics, Copper and Lithics; 11. Is there a Scottish Chalcolithic?; 12. A date with the Chalcolithic in Wales; a review of radiocarbon measurements for 2450-2100 cal BC; 13. Searching for the Chalcolithic: continuity and change in the Irish Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age; 14. The Chalcolithic in Ireland: a chronological and cultural framework |
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15. The Beaker People Project: an interim report on the progress of the isotopic analysis of the organic skeletal material16. The Regionality of Beakers and Bodies in the Chalcolithic of North-east Scotland; 17. Stepping Out Together: men, women and their beakers in time and space; 18. Chalcolithic Land-use, Animals and Economy -- a Chronological Changing Point?; 19. The Present Dead: the making of past and future landscapes in the British Chalcolithic; 20. The Revenge of the Native: monuments, material culture, burial and other practices in the third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC in Wessex |
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IndexCD -- 1. Case and Place for the British Chalcolithic; Appendix 1.1: Key Chalcolithic grave groups; Appendix 1.2: Selected radiocarbon dated ceremonial sites mentioned in the text; Bibliography for Appendices 1.1 and 1.2; CD -- 10. Chronology, Corpses, Ceramics, Copper and Lithics; Table 10.4 Radiocarbon measurements used in models and/or cited in the text, in laboratorynumber order; Figs 10.3a, 10.3b, 10.3c, 10.3d, 10.3e, 10.5b, 10.5c, 10.5d, 10.5e, 10.5f, 10.5g, 10.5h and 10.5i; Bibliography |
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CD -- 15. The Beaker People Project: an interim report on the progress of the isotopic analysis of the organic skeletal material |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Copper age -- Great Britain
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Copper implements -- Great Britain
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Metal-work, Prehistoric -- Great Britain
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Copper implements.
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Antiquities
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Copper age
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Copper implements
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Metal-work, Prehistoric
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Great Britain -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gardiner, Julie
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Sheridan, Alison
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| ISBN |
9781842178973 |
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1842178970 |
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9781842178997 |
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1842178997 |
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