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1 online resource (viii, 176 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Metals, minds and mobility: an introduction / Xosé-Lois Armada, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso and Mike Charlton -- pt. 1. Transmission of metallurgical technologies, knowledge and ideas. 2. On Europe, the Mediterranean and the myth of passive peripheries / Tobias L. Kienlin ; 3. Metal artefacts circulation in the Eneolithic period from southeastern Romania: a case study / Catalin Lazar, Adelina Darie, Gheorghe Niculescu and Migdonia Georgescu ; 4. On Quimbaya goldwork (Colombia), lost wax casting and ritual practice in America and Europe / Alicia Perea ; 5. Bronze production and tin provenance - new thoughts about the spread of metallurgical knowledge / Bianka Nessel, Gerhard Brügmann, Daniel Berger, Carolin Frank, Janeta Marahrens and Ernst Pernicka -- pt. 2.: Prestige economies and exchange. 6. Unequal exchange and the articulation of modes of re-production / Michael Rowlands ; 7. Why was (and is) silver sexy? Silver during the 4th-3rd millennia in the Near East and Mesopotamia / Susan Sherratt ; 8. Gold, conspicuous consumption and prestige - a relationship in need of review. The case of Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero -- pt. 3. Circulation of metal as commodities. 9. Biography, prosopography and the density of scientific data: Some arguments from the metallurgy of Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland / Peter Bray ; 10. The role of pre-Norsemen in trade and exchange of commodities in Bronze Age Europe / Lene Melheim, Johan Ling, Zofia A. Stos-Gale, Eva Hjärthner-Holdar and Lena Grandin ; 11. Lead and copper mining in Priorat county (Tarragona, Spain): From cooperative exchange networks to colonial trade (2600-500 BC) / Núria Rafel Fontanals, Ignacio Soriano, Xosé-Lois Armada, Mark A. Hunt Ortiz and Ignacio Montero-Ruiz -- pt. 4. Concluding remarks. 12. Mobility, minds and metals: The end of archaeological science? / Marcos Martinón-Torres. |
| Summary |
"Metals, Minds and Mobility seeks to integrate archaeometallurgical data with archaeological theory to address longstanding questions about mechanisms of exchange, mobility and social complexity in prehistory. The circulation of metal has long been viewed as a catalyst for social, economic and population changes in Europe. New techniques and perspectives derived from archaeological science can shed new light on the understanding of the movement of people, materials and technological knowledge. In recent years these science-based approaches have situated mobility at the forefront of the archaeological debate. Advances in the characterisation of metals and metallurgical residues combined with more sophisticated approaches to data analysis add greater resolution to provenance studies. Though offering better pictures of artefact source, the explanation of artefact distribution across geographic space requires the use of theoretically informed models and solid archaeological evidence to discern differences between the circulation of raw materials, ingots, objects, craftspeople and populations. Bringing together many leading expert contributions address topics that include the invention, innovation and transmission of metallurgical knowledge; archaeometric based models of exchange; characterization and discrimination of different modes of material circulation; and the impact of metals on social complexity. The 13 papers are organised in three main sections dealing with key debates in archaeology: transmission of metallurgical technologies, knowledge and ideas; prestige economies and exchange; and circulation of metal as commodities and concludes with a review current approaches, situating the volume in a broader context and identifying future research directions." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Metallurgy in archaeology.
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Metallurgy in archaeology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Armada, X. L., editor.
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Murillo-Barroso, Mercedes, editor.
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Charlton, Michael F., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Metals, minds and mobility. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2019 9781785709050 (OCoLC)1023396398 |
| ISBN |
9781785709067 (electronic book) |
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1785709062 (electronic book) |
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9781785709050 |
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1785709054 |
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