Format:
Online-Ressource (177 p)
ISBN:
9781785700187
Content:
Intro -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction. Flint daggers: A historical, typological and methodological primer -- 1. Lithic daggers in the Ancient Near East - whence and whither? -- 2. Dagger-like flint implements in Bronze Age Egypt -- 3. Origins and development of flint daggers in Italy -- 4. On flint and copper daggers in Chalcolithic Italy -- 5. The Pressigny phenomenon -- 6. The cultural biography of the Scandinavian daggers in the northern Netherlands -- 7. A parallel-flaked Scandinavian type flint dagger from Lent: An indicator of contactsbetween the central Netherlands and northern Jutland during Bell Beaker times -- 8. Bloody daggers: A discussion of the function of Late Neolithic flint daggers froma South Scandinavian point of view -- 9. Making a point: Re-evaluating British flint daggers in their cultural and technological contexts -- 10. Bifacial flint daggers from the Early Bronze Age in Volhynia - Lesser Poland -- 11. Silicite daggers from the territories of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (a preliminary study) -- 12. Metal adoption and the emergence of stone daggers in Northeast Asia -- 13. 'Art thou but a dagger of the mind?' Understanding lithic daggers in Europe and beyond.
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction. Flint daggers: A historical, typological and methodological primer -- 1. Lithic daggers in the Ancient Near East - whence and whither? -- 2. Dagger-like flint implements in Bronze Age Egypt -- 3. Origins and development of flint daggers in Italy -- 4. On flint and copper daggers in Chalcolithic Italy -- 5. The Pressigny phenomenon -- 6. The cultural biography of the Scandinavian daggers in the northern Netherlands
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7. A parallel-flaked Scandinavian type flint dagger from Lent: An indicator of contactsbetween the central Netherlands and northern Jutland during Bell Beaker times -- 8. Bloody daggers: A discussion of the function of Late Neolithic flint daggers froma South Scandinavian point of view -- 9. Making a point: Re-evaluating British flint daggers in their cultural and technological contexts -- 10. Bifacial flint daggers from the Early Bronze Age in Volhynia - Lesser Poland -- 11. Silicite daggers from the territories of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (a preliminary study)
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12. Metal adoption and the emergence of stone daggers in Northeast Asia -- 13. 'Art thou but a dagger of the mind?' Understanding lithic daggers in Europe and beyond
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785700217
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785700187
Additional Edition:
Print version Catherine,Frieman Flint Daggers in Prehistoric Europe Havertown : Oxbow Books,c2015
Language:
English
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