Interpreting the Axe Trade Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain

Name: Interpreting the Axe Trade Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain
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ISBN: 9780521619370

ISBN-10: 0521619378

ISBN-13: 9780521619370

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard J. Bradley, Mark Edmonds, Colin Renfrew, Wendy Ashmore, Clive Gamble

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Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies, the authors explore some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological discussions of exchange at both a theoretical and a methodological level. Out of this critique arises an argument for an integrated approach to the production, circulation and consumption of past material - an approach which acknowledges the subtle and complex roles that 'things' may play in the reproduction of social life. These arguments provide the basis for a case study which explores the links between the social contexts within which…

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of tables


Acknowledgements



Neolithic Britain and the Study of Exchange Systems



Making the connections



Neolithic Britain - background to the case study



Studying stone axe in Neolithic Britain



Axe Production in the Cumbrian Mountains



Tackling the problem at source



Establishing a methodology



Test excavations at Great Langdale



Great Langdale in its regional context



Exchange Systems and the Study of Neolithic Britain



The wider significance of the 'axe trade': the Earlier Neolithic



The wider significance of the 'axe trade': the Later Neolithic; 1



Retrospect


Appendix


Bibliography


Index