Richard Bradley, Mark Edmonds

Interpreting the Axe Trade

Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain
Herausgeber: Renfrew, Colin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780521619370
• ISBN-10: 0521619378
• Artikelnr.: 22435399

Autorenporträt

Richard Bradley and Ann Ellison with John Barrett & John Evans

Inhaltsangabe

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.