Katharine Walker

Broschiertes Buch

Axe-heads and Identity

An investigation into the roles of imported axe-heads in identity formation in Neolithic Britain

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Katharine Walker is a prehistorian who specialises in the Neolithic of northwest Europe. She is Visiting Research Fellow at Bournemouth University, Ecademy Project Officer at the New Forest Centre in Lyndhurst, and a freelance lithics and stone axe specialist. She studied at the Universities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Southampton where she completed a PhD in 2015. Her current research interests focus on materials and material culture, and she has also published on the first metalwork and the origins of social power in The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe (2015). She is an active Committee Member of the Implement Petrology Group, as well as Editor of their newsletter Stonechat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Archaeopress
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 291mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1216g
• ISBN-13: 9781784917449
• ISBN-10: 1784917443
• Artikelnr.: 50856780