Download or read book Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe written by Catherine J. Frieman and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century flint daggers have been among the most closely studied and most heavily published later prehistoric lithic tools. It is well established that they are found across Europe and beyond, and that many were widely circulated over many generations. Yet, few researchers have attempted to discuss the entirety of the flint dagger phenomenon. The present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regional variability and socio-technical complexity of flint daggers and their production. It focuses on the typology, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning of flint and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in prehistory. The 14 papers by leading researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge concerning various flint dagger corpora as well as potential avenues for the development of a research agenda across national, regional and disciplinary boundaries. The volume originates from a session held at the 2011 meeting of the European Association of Archaeology but includes additional commissioned contributions.
Download or read book Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe written by Catherine Frieman and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the first multi-regional overview of lithic daggers from Europe-and beyond-with papers on the typology, chronology, technology and function of these famous objects by leading scholars from around Europe and the world.
Download or read book Daggers and Fighting Knives of the Western World written by Harold L. Peterson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-03-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an historical analysis of the range of weapons used in hand-to-hand combat from prehistoric flint knives to eared daggers of the mid-sixteenth century, to nineteenth-century British and American naval dirks.
Download or read book Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe written by European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Pierre Allard, Françoise Bostyn, François Giligny and Jacek Lech This book includes papers from the Flint Mining in Prehistoric Europe session held at European Association of Archaeologists 12th Annual Meeting Cracow, Poland, 19th-24th September 2006.
Download or read book Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe written by Françoise Bostyn and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden, using the same framework to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon.
Download or read book Flint Implements written by British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic work is that of W. Watson. This edition has been revised and brought into line ... by G. Sieveking, Assistant Keeper in the Department.
Download or read book Catalogue of European Daggers written by Bashford Dean and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1929-02-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue features daggers in numerous examples dating from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century and provides a history of not only the daggers in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, but also the broader history of daggers in general. The illuminating text traces the dagger's development and mode of use throughout the time period while also differentiating it from concurrent development of swords. Included in the text are helpful line illustrations that better show the form and decoration of the daggers, accompanied by a plate section, which allows for easy comparison of the works.
Download or read book Arrowpoints Spearheads and Knives of Prehistoric Times written by Thomas Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough history of the weapons and tools our prehistoric ancestors used to survive, this book reveals a world that will fascinate anyone interested in outdoor skills, ancient weapons, or anthropology. Thomas Wilson explains the many types of arrowheads, spears, and knives used by the peoples of the Paleolithic period across Western Europe and the early days of America. He details the materials from which these tools were made, how and where they were manufactured, and the purposes for which they were crafted—from hunting and cutting to scraping and grinding. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of drawings of these tools, including microscopic details of the flint and other stones from which they were crafted, this is a rare look into what seems like mankind's not-so-distant past.
Download or read book Ancient Stone Implements Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain written by John Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated 1872 work describes Stone Age weapons, tools and ornaments, from cave and river-bed deposits as well as settlements.
Download or read book The Joy of Flint written by Clive Waddington and published by University of Newcastle. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and well illustrated introduction to lithic studies, tracing the development of stone tools from the end of the Ice Age through to post-prehistoric survivals. Includes a gazetteer of the lithic artefacts held by the Newcastle Museum of Antiquities.
Download or read book Prehistoric Flint Mines written by Robin Holgate and published by Bloomsbury Shire Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grube - Bergbau - Neolithikum.
Download or read book The Origins of War written by Jean Guilaine and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching across continents and centuries, The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory provides a fascinating examination of executions, torture, ritual sacrifices, and other acts of violence committed in the prehistoric world. Written as an accessible guide to the nature of life in prehistory and to the underpinnings of human violence. Combines symbolic interpretations of archaeological remains with a medical understanding of violent acts. Written by an eminent prehistorian and a respected medical doctor.
Download or read book Flint in Focus written by Annelou L. van Gijn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographies of flint objects reveal their various and changing roles in prehistoric life. Using raw material sourcing, technological analysis, experimental archaeology, microwear and residue studies the author tells the story of flint from the Early Neolithic to its virtual demise in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, incorporating data from settlements, burials and hoards from the region of the present-day Netherlands. This richly illustrated book shows the way flint functioned in daily life, how simple domestic tools became ritualized, how flint was used to negotiate change and how the biography of flint objects was related to personhood.
Download or read book Daggers and Fighting Knives of the Western World written by Harold Leslie Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovation and Imitation written by Catherine Frieman and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of prehistoric innovation, the author argues that a range of technologies and practices need to be considered in order to place innovation into the pre-existing social and technological systems in which it functioned and to assess the means by which it was accepted and valued. In particular the study focuses on how archaeological interpretations of stone objects and stone-working can help understand the adoption and continued presence of metal and metallurgy in prehistoric Europe. The author compares traditionally identified stone skeuomorphs - that is, meaningful imitations-of metal with their putative prototypes. Three separate corpora of these stone skeuomorphs have been identified: polished stone shafthole axes from the Netherlands and surrounding areas, identified as copies of perforated, copper axes; flint daggers from Jutland, identified as copies of bronze, metal-hilted daggers; and jet spacer-plate ornaments from the British Isles, Ireland and Brittany, identified as copies of hammered gold lunulae.
Download or read book Stone Age Mining Age written by Gabriele Körlin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bronze Age Warfare written by Richard Osgood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronze Age, so named because of the technological advances in metalworking and countless innovations in the manufacture and design of tools and weapons, is among the most fascinating periods in human history. Archaeology has taught us much about the way of life, habits and homes of Bronze Age people, but as yet little has been written about warfare. What was Bronze Age warfare like? How did people fight and against whom? What weapons were used? Did they fortify their settlements, and, if so, were these intended as defensive or offensive structures? in response to these and many other questions, Bronze Age Warfare offers and intriguing insight into warfare and society, life and death in Europe 4000 years ago. It describes the surviving evidence of conflict - fortifications, weapons and body protection, burials, human remains and pictorial evidence - and seeks to understand the role played by aggression in the prehistoric world.
