Download or read book An Essay on Copper Flat Axes written by Björn Magnusson Staaf and published by Coronet Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of the Line written by Aleksander Dzbyński and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive research in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and cognitive science clearly suggests that the development of a material culture in prehistory was a serious contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. An underestimated interface in this process, as cognitive and philosophical studies suggest, was the capability to perceive the external world in a metaphorical way. This book uses several examples to tell this story. It does not claim the right to present a universal story, applicable for the whole human species, although it also questions that universality. The cornerstone of the story is structured by the relationship between body, language, and material culture. The examples presented in this book, however, also allow us to contemplate a less universal phenomenon; the similarities and differences between Near Eastern and European culture in the period of the development of farming. As such, this book also investigates whether clay tokens – an invention originated from Near Eastern societies – were also responsible for the development of mathematical abilities in prehistoric societies in Europe. In Europe, however, the lack of material representations of numbers in the form of small objects was replaced by linear concepts. Linearity, from its simple manifestations in the monumental form to its complex use in later megalithic structures, requires more thought because it served not only as an ephemeral symbol and a metaphor, but also as a practical tool in building anthropogenic spaces. Only when we see a metaphor in the omnipresent linearity can we understand it properly in combination with the cosmologic aspects of architecture, the role of the human body, and the concept of numbers. As such, the book distinguishes between two dichotomous development paths of mathematization and numerosity in Europe and the Near East – the birthplace of farming: the measuring stick metaphor and the object collection metaphor. The book also discusses further transformations of the measuring stick metaphor into more rational concepts throughout the course of technological developments in Europe.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe written by Chris Fowler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neolithic —a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe—has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages in which research is carried out, and the way research traditions in different countries have developed makes it very difficult for both students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic —from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta —offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture; subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and other treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the history of research and sets out agendas and themes for future work in the field.
Download or read book Metallographic Research as a Museum Aid written by Herbert Henery Coghlan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Geometrical and Graphical Essays Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry with Many New Practical Problems Illustrated by Thirty Four Copper Plates by the Late George Adams written by George Adams and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Copper Shaft Hole Axes and Early Metallurgy in South Eastern Europe An Integrated Approach written by Julia Heeb and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the copper axes with central shaft-hole from south-eastern Europe have a long history of research, they have not been studied on a transnational basis since the 1960s. What has also been missing, is trying to use as many methods as possible to better understand their production, use and context.
Download or read book Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe written by Sherratt A. Sherratt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.
Download or read book The World view of Prehistoric Man written by Lars Larsson and published by Kungl. Vitterhets Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: The politics of scale and the experience of distance: the Bronze Age world system. - Changing world-view of prehistoric populations. - Otherness in prehistoric times. - The biological basis of social behaviour. - Opposition, hierarchy and gender in Aboriginal South America: linguistic and architectural homologies. - The Scandinavians' view of Europe in the Migration period. - Stones and mentality: a Megalithic tomb in Vale de Rodrigo, Southern Portugal. - The basic perception of religious activities at cult-sites such as springs, lakes and rivers. - Vingen revisited: a gender perspective on Hunters' rock art.
Download or read book Flint written by Bo Knarrström and published by Riksantikvarieambetet. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of raw material utilization, flint technology and the function of tools in a long term perspective. Emphasizes that flint tools continued to be part of everyday life into the Iron Age and Medieval period. Doctoral dissertation.
Download or read book I Bronzi Antichi written by Alessandra R. Giumlia-Mair and published by Editions Mergoil. This book was released on 2002 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronzebearbeitung.
Download or read book Copper and Bronze in Art written by David A. Scott and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.
Download or read book Metals and Society written by Barbara S. Ottaway and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen papers, from the EEA Sixth Annual Meeting held in Lisbon in 2000, aim to explain the role that metal and metalworking played in past societies and to integrate analytical data with theoretical, contextual and ethno-archaeological studies'.
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