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Title

Flint daggers in prehistoric Europe / edited by Catherine J. Frieman and Berit Valentin Eriksen.

Publication

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Frieman, Catherine, 1982-
• Eriksen, Berit Valentin

Description

vii, 165 pages; 29 cm

Subjects

• Europe
• Stone age
• Weapons, Prehistoric
• Antiquities
• Europe > Antiquities
• Stone age > Europe
• Weapons, Prehistoric > Europe
• Daggers > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Flint daggers : a historical, typological and methodological primer / Catherine J. Frieman & Berit Valentin Eriksen -- 1. Lithic daggers in the ancient Near East : whence and whither? / Thomas Zimmermann -- 2. Dagger-like flint implements in Bronze Age Egypt / Carolyn Graves-Brown -- 3. Origins and development of flint daggers in Italy / Denis Guilbeau -- 4. On flint and copper daggers in Chalcolithic Italy / Daniel Steiniger -- 5. The Pressigny phenomenon / Ewen Ihuel, Jacques Pelegrin, Nicole Mallet & Christian Verjux -- 6. The cultural biography of the Scandinavian daggers in the northern Netherlands / Annelou Van Gijn -- 7. A parallel-flaked Scandinavian type flint dagger from Lent : an indicator of contacts between the central Netherlands and northern Jutland during Bell Beaker times / Erik Drenth -- 8. Bloody daggers : a discussion of the function of late Neolithic flint daggers from a South Scandinavian point of view / Jeanette Varberg -- 9. Making a point : re-evaluating British flint daggers in their cultural and technological contexts / Catherine J. Frieman -- 10. Bifacial flint daggers from the early Bronze Age in Volhynia-Lesser Poland / Witold Grużdź, Witold Migal & Katarzyna Pyżewicz -- 11. Silicite daggers from the territories of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (a preliminary study) / Antonín Přichystal & Lubomír Šebela -- 12. Metal adoption and the emergence of stone daggers in northeast Asia / Shinya Shoda -- 13. 'Art thou but a dagger of the mind?' : understanding lithic daggers in Europe and beyond / Catherine J. Frieman.

ISBN

• 9781785700187
• 1785700189
• 9781785700194 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2015031209
• 60002073204

OCLC

• 919068266
• ocn919068266
• SCSB-5836344

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries