A01=Mark Edmonds
age
archaeology
artefact deposition
Author_Mark Edmonds
Axe Hammers
bronze
Bush Barrow
Carved Stone Balls
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Category=NK
causewayed
Causewayed Enclosure
Collared Urns
Cursus Monuments
Dorset Cursus
Durrington Walls
Earlier Neolithic
Earlier Neolithic Assemblages
early
Early Bronze Age
enclosure
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eq_history
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eq_isMigrated=2
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exchange networks Britain
Flint Axes
Flint Knapping Experience
Flint Mines
Fragmentary Human Remains
Grimes Graves
grooved
Hambledon Hill
Itford Hill
lithic analysis
material culture theory
Middle Bronze Age
Middle Bronze Age Sites
museum
Narrow Flakes
neolithic
Neolithic stone tool production
Passage Graves
prehistoric technology
Round Barrow
Skara Brae
social identity archaeology
Stone Tools
ware
Product details
- ISBN 9780415214490
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stone tools are the most durable and, in some cases, the only category of material evidence that students of prehistory have at their disposal. Exploring the changing character and context of stone tools in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, Mark Edmonds examines the varied ways in which these artefacts were caught up in the fabric of past social life. Key themes include:stone tool procurement and production * the nature of technological traditions * stone tools and social identity * the nature of exchange and the significance of depositional practices. As well as contributing to current debate about the interpretation of material culture, Dr. Edmonds uses the evidence of stone tools to reconsider some of the major horizons of change in later British prehistory.From the production of tools at spectacularly located quarries to their ceremonial burial or destruction at ritual monuments, this well-illustrated study demonstrates that our understanding of these varied and sometimes enigmatic artefacts requires a concern with their social, as well as their practical dimensions.
