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STONE TOOLS & SOCIETY Mark Edmonds

STONE TOOLS & SOCIETY By Mark Edmonds

STONE TOOLS & SOCIETY by Mark Edmonds


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Summary

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.

STONE TOOLS & SOCIETY Summary

STONE TOOLS & SOCIETY by Mark Edmonds

The aim of this work is to explore the changing character and social roles of stone tools of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages in Britain. As well as contributing to current theoretical debate about the interpretation of material culture, this study provides a context in which to consider some of the major horizons of change in British pre-history. From stone axe quarries to the final ceremonial burial or breakage of tools at ritual monuments, Edmonds examines the evidence both regionally and chronologically. He looks at modifications in the form of tools and the methods used to produce them, taking into consideration the changing material and social conditions under which tools were produced, acquired, used and deposited. The result is the delineation of a prehistoric sequence in Britain, from the end of the Mesolithic era and the transition to Neolithic.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations, Preface and acknowledgements, 1. Squeezing Blood From Stones, 2. Technologies of the Earlier Neolithic, 3. Contexts For Production and Exchange in the Earlier Neolithic, 4. Sermons in Stone: The Later Neolithic, 5. Stone in the Age of Metal, 6. The Place of Stone in Early Bronze Age Britain, 7. The Erosion of Stone, Glossary, Further reading, Index.

Additional information

GOR004224519
9780713471410
0713471417
STONE TOOLS & SOCIETY by Mark Edmonds
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Batsford Ltd
19950805
160
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