The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory
Title | The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory PDF eBook |
Author | Xavier Terradas Batlle |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 2017-11-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1527505235 |
This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are studying.
Networks of trade in raw materials and technological innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory: an archaeometry approach
Title | Networks of trade in raw materials and technological innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory: an archaeometry approach PDF eBook |
Author | Davide Delfino |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2016-08-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 178491424X |
Specialists from various disciplines (humanities and natural sciences) debate, from different perspectives, the networks in raw materials and technological innovation in Prehistory and Protohistory, involving investigation topics typical of archaeometry: archeometallurgy, petrography, and mineralogy
Personal Ornaments in Prehistory
Title | Personal Ornaments in Prehistory PDF eBook |
Author | Emma L. Baysal |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789252873 |
Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years, from hunter-gatherer life in the cave to urban elites, from expedient use of natural resources to complex technologies. Using evidence from archaeological sites across Turkey, the Near East and the Balkans, it explores the history of personal ornaments from their appearance in the Palaeolithic until the rise of urban centers in the Early Bronze Age and encompassing technologies ranging from stone cutting to early glazing, metallurgy and the roots of glass manufacture. The development of theoretical and practical approaches to ornaments and the current state of research are illustrated with a wide variety of examples. This book shows that far from being objects of display, of little value in archaeological interpretation and often overlooked, these artifacts are key to understanding trade, relationships, values, beliefs and the construction of personal identity in the past. Indeed, more than any other group of artifacts, their variety in material, form, use and distribution opens doors to both wide ranging scientific exploration and consideration of what it is to be human.
Across the Seas in Prehistoric Northeast Asia
Title | Across the Seas in Prehistoric Northeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Yaroslav Kuzmin |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 142 |
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ISBN | 9819751381 |
Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe
Title | Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Françoise Bostyn |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 2023-11-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1803272228 |
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.
Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe
Title | Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn E. Fisher |
Publisher | British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Lithic assemblages have always been an important source of information, sometimes the only source, on human activities in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe. These twelve papers, some of which were given at the 59th Annual SAA meeting in Arnheim in 1994 (here revised) present comparative lithic material from across Europe.
Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond
Title | Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Adnan Baysal |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2022-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789699274 |
This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.