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- PublishedOn
- 2018-01-31
- ISBN
- 9781784917449
- EAN
- 9781784917449
- Subject Area
- House & Home, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Axe-Heads and Identity : An Investigation into the Roles of Imported Axe-Heads in Identity Formation in Neolithic Britain
- Publisher
- Archaeopress
- Item Length
- 11.4 in
- Subject
- Archaeology, Ancient / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Hand Tools
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 44.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 334 Pages
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The significant body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent has been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies, particularly over the past half century. It is proposed, in this study, that the cause is a bias of British Neolithic scholarship against the invasion hypothesis and diffusionist model, and it is sought therefore to re-assess the significance accorded to these objects. The aim is to redress the imbalance by re-focusing on the material, establishing a secure evidence base, and exploring the probable conditions in which these often distinctive items made their way to Britain. The narrative presented here rests upon the argument that imported axe-heads came into what is today called Britain as objects of considerable significance. Specifically, they were items of high symbolic value that played a crucial role in fostering particular ways of thinking about, and addressing, social identity in the Neolithic period. These issues are the context for the study, whose main objectives are the close and detailed cataloguing of relevant material, and a documentation of the investigative work needed to establish the credentials of each artefact.
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Publisher
Archaeopress
ISBN-10
1784917443
ISBN-13
9781784917449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242831598
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
334 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Axe-Heads and Identity : An Investigation into the Roles of Imported Axe-Heads in Identity Formation in Neolithic Britain
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Archaeology, Ancient / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Hand Tools
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
House & Home, History, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
44.6 Oz
Item Length
11.4 in
Item Width
8.1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2018-419615
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
'It is excellent to see all the disparate data collectedtogether with a persistent reminder of the problem of fakes and manuports (mostaxe-heads are stray finds, others form part of donated antiquarian collections,or, these days, bought on eBay); it allows, for the first time, an overview ofthe 'oddities'. This clearly shows that a re-examination of the material is overdue,and the need for the original lithological descriptions/attributions to beconfirmed is the author's constant and timely cry (but for safe progress itmust to be done by a competent petrographer). The questions this book(re-)raises are important and are clarified. Most notably (placing jade to oneside), why, after the early Neolithic, were so very few axes imported?' -Rob Ixer (2018): CurrentArchaeology #343 'Overall, this book provides a wealth of interestingideas and observations of the British Neolithic and its relations with itsnearest neighbours. It highlights what the author has rightly identified as agreatly neglected class of objects... For those with a fascination for stonetools, this provides an enjoyable wander through the problems and pitfalls, butalso the considerable potential, of axeheads with possible Continentalassociations.' - Barry Bishop (2019): Archaeological Journal ,DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2019.1591070
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
936.1
Lc Classification Number
Gn776.22
Table of Content
Preface and acknowledgements; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Re-connecting British and continental research traditions: dynamic approaches to the relationship between axe-heads and identity; Chapter Three: 'Afterlives'; Chapter Four: An investigation into the contexts of jade axe-heads found in Britain, using GIS terrain modelling of HER data; Chapter Five: 'Projet Breton' and the search for Group X; Chapter Six: 'Crudwell' type, 'Smerrick' type, and marbled all-over-polished axe-heads in Neolithic Britain; Chapter Seven: The rectangular-sectioned axe-head in Britain and its implications for understanding the Neolithic; Chapter Eight: Answering the original questions; Appendix One: Table of all known published jade axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations (correct until 2017). Shaded in grey are axe-heads with 'precise' find-spot locations, included in Appendix Two); Appendix Two: Find-spot locations, and archaeology of Mesolithic to Roman date within a 1000m radius, for 43 jade axe-heads found in Britain, presented as 41 GIS terrain models with accompanying text; Appendix Three: A table of all known Group X axe-heads and a table of Breton fibrolite axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations; Appendix Four: Table of all published 'Crudwell-Smerrick' type axe-heads; Appendix Five: Table of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed. Highlighted in grey are axe-heads of probable Scandinavian origin. This is a summary of the information presented in Appendix Six; Appendix Six: Corpus of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed (summarised in Appendix Five); Appendix Seven: Caches and hoards of axe-heads in Britain. Please note, almost all of the data included in this corpus has been taken directly from Pitts 1996, Appendix One, with a few additions by the author; Bibliography; Index
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2018
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