Download or read book The Classification of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Axe heads from Southern Britain written by Stuart Needham and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a comprehensive classification of the morphology of early metal age axe-heads, chisels and stakes from southern Britain. It is illustrated by a type series of 120 representative examples.
Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry written by Eleni Filippaki and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenic Society for Archaeometry includes a selection of contributions, covering a wide range of fields in archaeological science, such as provenance and technology of archaeomaterials, geo- and bio-archaeology, dating and landscape studies, as well as papers illuminating the origins of archaeometry in Greece.
Download or read book Change and Archaeology written by Rachel J. Crellin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described, interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The study of change is central to the discipline of archaeology, but change is complex, and this makes it challenging to write about in nuanced ways that effectively capture the nature of our world. Relational approaches offer archaeologists more scope to explore change in complex and subtle ways. Change and Archaeology presents a posthumanist, post-anthropocentric, new materialist approach to change. It argues that our world is constantly in the process of becoming and always on the move. By recasting change as the norm rather than the exception and distributing it between both humans and non-humans, this book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring change in the past that allows us to move beyond block-time approaches where change is located only in transitional moments and periods are characterised by blocks of stasis. Archaeologists, scholars, anthropologists and historians interested in the theoretical frameworks we use to interpret the past will find this book a fascinating new insight into the way our world changes and evolves. The approaches presented within will be of use to anyone studying and writing about the way societies and their environs move through time.
Download or read book New Light on the Neolithic of Northern England written by Gill Hey and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is still not published) has been overlooked in the national discourse. The papers cover a wide geographical area, from Lancashire north into the Scottish Lowlands, recognising the irrelevance of the England/Scotland Border. They also take abroad chronological sweep, from the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition to the introduction of Beakers into the area. The key themes are: the nature of transition; the need for a much-improved chronological framework; regional variation linked to landscape character; links within northern England and with distant places; the implications of new dating for our understanding ‘the axe trade; the changing nature of settlement and agriculture; the character early Neolithic enclosures; the need to integrate rock art into wider discourse.
Download or read book Enigmas written by Emily Joan Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved.
Download or read book The Classification of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Copper and Bronze Axe Heads from Southern Britain written by Stuart Needham and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2018 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a comprehensive classification of the morphology of early metal age axe-heads, chisels and stakes from southern Britain. It is illustrated by a type series of 120 representative examples. Despite their relative simplicity, flat and early flanged axes from Britain and Ireland show considerable diversity in form. The main variation lies in outline shapes and the classification scheme arrived at therefore depends on careful evaluation of condition, followed by rigorous analysis of shape using metrical ratios. This ensures objectivity in both the formulation of the scheme and future object attributions, for which guidelines are given. Comparative material in northern Britain and Ireland is systematically referred to and a few crucial Continental parallels noted. Hoards and other associated finds, essential in underpinning the chronology, are cited throughout. The style sequence outlined spans nine centuries of evolution, a regional trajectory which was nevertheless inextricably tied to axe developments in northern Britain, Ireland and, to a lesser extent, the near Continent. While technological advance is apparent at the broad scale, this was not the sole driver of the style changes taking place. The study will be indispensable for those researching early metalwork, those concerned with European Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age cultures and those interested in patterns of style-cum-technological development.
Download or read book The Early Bronze Age axeheads of central and southern England written by Stuart Needham and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Bronze Age axeheads of central and southern England written by Stuart Needham and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The early Bronze Age axeheads of central and southern England written by Stuart Needham and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bronze Artefact Production in Late Bronze Age Ireland written by Simon Ó Faoláin and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late Bronze Age the Irish had become masters in metalworking anf the range of objects produced was in stark contrast to those of the earlie Bronze Age. This study presents a comprehensive analysis and reconstruction of late Bronze Age metalworking practices through artefactual evidence and also experimental work and ethnography.
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 The Biological Affinities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age written by Zissis Parras and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates biological population affinities amongst Eastern Mediterranean Chalcolithic and Bronze Age human skeletal samples from sites in Cyprus, Greece and Syria. Age, sex and non-metric traits from the dentition, crania and post-crania were recorded. Using the non-metric dental data the biological affinities of these sites are determined. The comparisons between the sites from southwest Cyprus show all three sites to be statistically biologically similar. They also appeared to show some relation to a Syrian Early Bronze age site. These findings contrast with the different material cultures of the regions, which may suggest a biological relation based on ancestral contact between Cyprus and the mainland. The Cypriot Late Bronze sites show a mixed relation with the Chalcolithic samples with some relations with the Middle Bronze Age Greek samples and Syria. Where geographical distance is usually a factor in these types of comparisons, this study suggests time may also be a factor.
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Download or read book The Bronze Axe written by W. Foot Walker and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Artifact Analysis written by Carl Cullberg and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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