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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Introduction; General issues; The (pre)historic background â#x80;#x93; in brief; Prehistory in archaeology and prehistory in practice; Not just stones; Archaeology, myths and archaeological myths; Longue durée symbols of elite status; A symbol for the dead of all ages; Analysed touchstones from Birka burials; Metals on touchstones from Birka and elsewhere; Nickel appearance; On the limits of SEM analysis; A lesson from the deep; Forgotten star witnesses, or Conclusion; The petrographic qualities of analysed touchstones from Birka burials, and their description; References. |
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Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century? Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with arch. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Grave goods -- Sweden -- Birka -- History.
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Grave goods. |
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Sweden -- Birka. |
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History. |
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Prehistoric peoples -- Sweden -- Birka -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Prehistoric peoples. |
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Metallurgy -- Sweden -- Birka -- History.
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Metallurgy. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Sweden -- Birka.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Birka Site (Sweden)
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Ježek, Martin. Archaeology of Touchstones : An introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden. Leiden : SIdestone Press, ©2017 9789088905179 |
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9789088905193 (electronic book) |
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9088905193 (electronic book) |
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9789088905186 |
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9088905185 |
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9789088905179 |
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9088905177 |
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