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Scandinavian Flint

Author : Anders Högberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Scandinavian Flint written by Anders Högberg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scandinavia as elsewhere, cryptocrystalline rocks such as flint were an integral part of peoples' lives during prehistory. Knowledge about flint, its properties, its uses, and its many names, was no doubt transmitted through the generations as part of everyday life. As archaeologists, we are interested in how prehistoric people dealt with flint and what they might have seen as the strengths and weaknesses of the various kinds of flint available. But in order to answer such questions it is necessary that we are able to talk to each other about flint in an informed and informative manner. Scandinavian Flint proposes a classification into 17 types for use by archaeologists. Flint types are described and evaluated in terms of knappability, limitations posed by nodule size, and prehistoric availability, rather than in terms of morphogenesis or chemical composition. Flint formation, geographic distribution of flint sources in Scandinavia, provenience studies, and patination are discussed in detail. Scandinavian Flint is a useful guide for archaeologists working with flint.

Ancient Scandinavia

Author : T. Douglas Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019023198X
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Scandinavia written by T. Douglas Price and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans arrive and settle in the region. The archaeological record of these prehistoric cultures, much of it remarkably preserved in Scandinavia's bogs, lakes, and fjords, has given us a detailed portrait of the evolution of human society at the edge of the inhabitable world. In this book, distinguished archaeologist T. Douglas Price provides a history of Scandinavia from the arrival of the first humans to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. The first book of its kind in English in many years, Ancient Scandinavia features overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by illustrative examples from the region's rich archaeology. An engrossing and comprehensive picture of change across the millennia emerges, showing how human society evolved from small bands of hunter-gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, cultures which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings at the end of the prehistoric period. The material evidence of these past societies--arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships--give vivid testimony to the ancient peoples of Scandinavia and to their extensive contacts with the remote cultures of the Arctic Circle, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean

Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe

Author : Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785700197
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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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.

Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia

Author : Mirosław Masojć
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784913804
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia by : Mirosław Masojć

Download or read book Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia written by Mirosław Masojć and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age

The Palaeolithic Period of the Scandinavian Peninsula

Author : Fredrik Arentz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Palaeolithic Period of the Scandinavian Peninsula written by Fredrik Arentz and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark (Volume 1 & 2)

Author : Jens-Henrik Bech
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8793423306
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark (Volume 1 & 2) by : Jens-Henrik Bech

Download or read book Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark (Volume 1 & 2) written by Jens-Henrik Bech and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two volume monograph about the region of Thy in the early Bronze Age provides a high resolution archaeological and ecological model of the organisation of landscape, settlements and households during the period 1500-1100 BC. Bordering the North Sea to the west, and the calmer waters of the Limfjord to the east, the region of Thy in Denmark experienced four centuries of intense economic and demographic expansion. By combining results from environmental and economic research (pollen and palaeo-botanical analyses) with intensive field surveys and excavations of farmsteads with exceptional preservation, it has been possible to open a window to the changes that transformed Bronze Age society and its environment during a few centuries of exceptional expansion and wealth consumption. The results from this interdisciplinary venture made it possible to link together the histories of local farmsteads with the wider regional and global history of the Bronze Age in North-western Europe during this period. Here is much to feed on for students and researchers of the Bronze Age alike.

The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia

Author : Sven Nilsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia written by Sven Nilsson and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Earlier Stone Age Settlement of Scandinavia

Author : Grahame Clark
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521204460
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Earlier Stone Age Settlement of Scandinavia written by Grahame Clark and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1975-01-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Ice Age Scandinavia was submerged under thick ice sheets, and it was only in the subsequent warmer conditions, as the ice receded, that colonisation by plants, animals and men became possible. In this book Grahame Clark examines the expansion of human settlement into this area, with particular emphasis on the economic aspects of the societies under discussion. The account is carried down to the time (3500-3000 BC) when mixed farming, including cereal agriculture, was being introduced into the area. The book is fully illustrated and documented by many maps and tables. It provides a rounded picture of the economy of the first settlers and their descendants in an area whose archaeological past has been exceptionally fully investigated and documented. The colonisation of Scandinavia is considered in its European context, but the main emphasis lies on the process of change and the continuity of settlement in the territory itself.

Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations

Author : Per Cornell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380410X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations written by Per Cornell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things, use things, leave things etc. The repeated social encounter is often a confrontation with something, such as an opinion, a performance, or with materialities and the effects are often unpredictable. Encounters may reproduce a social pattern, but also contain potential for transformation and change. Such varied responses to encounters will certainly have effects on the archaeological record. The primary focus of the volume is the effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal encounters. The collection hence fills a theoretical and methodological gap in the study of the encounter in archaeology. There is a need for elaborating aspects of postcolonial theory in order to develop new ways of approaching the archaeological record. The articles of this volume include examples from various regions and time periods. They range from Scandinavian Stone Age, through Buddhist social practices of the first millennium AD, Maya warfare and ideology, to Aboriginal-European encounters in 20th century Australia.Per Cornell (PhD, Ass. Prof.) is currently lecturer at the Department of archaeology, University of Gothenburg. Cornell has been involved in extensive field-work in Latin America and current research topics include settlement archaeology, formation processes and social theory. Among his recent books are Local, Regional, Global, co-edited with Per Stenborg (Gotarc, 2004).

From Forager to Farmer in Flint

Author : Michael D. Stafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From Forager to Farmer in Flint written by Michael D. Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from foraging to farming in prehistoric Denmark has been a topic of debate over the past sixty years. Michael Stafford contributes to this discussion via an analysis of stone tools from several well-known sites in Denmark spanning the transition to agriculture. Results of this analysis are applied to several recent theoretical approaches seeking to explain how and when the transition happened, and a new perspective is synthesised and defended.

Human Origins

Author : George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Origins written by George Grant MacCurdy and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe

Author : Peter Topping
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257069
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe written by Peter Topping and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe through to the Atlantic periphery of Britain and Ireland. The key research questions are when and why were these practices adopted and what role did extraction sites play in Neolithic society. Neolithic mines and quarries have frequently been seen as fulfilling roles linked to the expansion of the Neolithic economy. However, this ignores the fact that many communities chose to selectively dig for certain types of stone in preference to others and why the products from these sites were generally deposited in special places such as wetlands. To address this question, 168 near-global ethnographic studies were analyzed to identify common trends in traditional extraction practices to produce robust statistics about their motivations and material signatures. Repeated associations emerged between storied locations, the organization of extraction practices, long-distance distribution of products, and the material evidence such activities left behind. This suggests that we can now probably identify mythologized/storied sites, seasonality, ritualized extraction, and the use-life of extraction site products. The ethnographic model was tested against data from 223 near-global archaeological extraction sites, which confirmed a similar patterning in both material records. It was used to analyze the social context of 79 Neolithic flint mine and 51 axe quarry excavations in Britain and Ireland and to review their European origins. The evidence that emerges confirms the pivotal role played by Neolithic extraction practices in European Neolithization and that the interaction of indigenous foragers with migrant miners/farmers was fundamental to the adoption of the new agropastoral lifestyle.

Copper Overview - From Historical Aspects to Applications

Author : Daniel Fernández González
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0854661581
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Copper Overview - From Historical Aspects to Applications written by Daniel Fernández González and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copper is a metal that currently is a key element in the field of electricity, although it has significant importance in other fields, particularly when it is alloyed, due to its mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. Moreover, copper and some of its compounds are gaining importance in other topics due to their antibacterial properties. Nevertheless, this metal, which was one of the first used by humans, has been crucial for their development, and for this reason, two periods of history are called the Copper Age and Bronze Age due to the importance of Cu and Cu-Sn, respectively, in the fabrication of utensils, weapons, and ornamental objects. From that moment, the utilization of copper has significantly grown to an actual production approaching 30 Mt, of which around 80% corresponds to the mine production while the rest comes from recycling. The reutilization of copper (or the exploitation of secondary resources) is a topic of increasing importance due to both the depletion of high-grade deposits and the importance of environmental aspects in metallurgical industries. This book provides a collection of research works and reviews that emphasize some of the above-reported topics.

“The” Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England

Author : George Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book “The” Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England written by George Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age

Author : Anders Högberg
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lithics in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age written by Anders Högberg and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the large flint knife blade asking why these artefacts were so common in the late Bronze Age of southern Scandinavia, a time which is supposed to be characterised by the transition from bronze to iron technology.

Guide to the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury

Author : Salisbury, South Wilts & Blackmore Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury written by Salisbury, South Wilts & Blackmore Museum and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales

Author : Glyn Edmund Daniel
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales written by Glyn Edmund Daniel and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1950 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: