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The life biography of artefacts and ritual practice : with case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe / edited by Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and Peter Bye-Jensen ; prefaced by Joshua Pollard.

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The life biography of artefacts and ritual practice : with case studies from Mesolithic-Early Bronze Age Europe / edited by Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and Peter Bye-Jensen ; prefaced by Joshua Pollard.
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  • Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2020.
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist, Mathias,
  • Bye-Jensen, Peter,
  • European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting (22nd : 2016 : Vilnius, Lithuania)
  • Pollard, Joshua,
Description
xi, 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 30 cm.
Summary
"Inspired by a session held at the EAA conference in Vilnius in 2016, The Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice focuses on creating biographies from material culture as a means of understanding the relationship between the life of an artefact, the temporality of ritual practices and an object's final deposition. The temporal and geographic scope of these chapters range from Mesolithic Scandinavia, Neolithic practices found across Eastern, Central, Northern and Western Europe and stretches into the Eneolithic, Copper Age and early Bronze Age of central Europe. This volume explores the idea that one can create a narrative of an artefacts' life-biography by engaging various scientific methods and theoretical approaches.With a foreword by Joshua Pollard."--Back cover.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 2991
Uniform Title
BAR international series ; 2991.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface: Small traces, big issues / Joshua Pollard -- Foreword -- Taking a closer look - causewayed enclosures through the lens of a large-scale use-wear analysis project / Peter Bye-Jensen -- Endless life of tools and vessels from the Neolithic contexts in SW Poland / Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska [and 4 others] -- Grinding tools and circular enclosures: activities on late Neolithic settlements / Jaroslav Řidký [and 4 others] -- Amber discs with cross decoration from the eastern Baltic region. A research case study from the Daktariškė 5 Neolithic settlement, western Lithuania / Adomas Butrimas, Tomas Rimkus, and Gvidas Slah -- The role of chipped stone artefacts in the late Neolithic burial practices at the site Alsónyék (southern Hungary) / Kata Szilágyi -- Useful, beautiful or ritual? The life biography of grave goods from a prehistoric burial ground / Raluca Kogǎlniceamu -- Practical and symbolic aspects of the life cycle of arrowheads in Central Europe, 2,400-1,800 BC / Ludmila Kaňáková -- From the living to the dead: lithics as a part of grave goods of the TRB culture in Denmark / Marzena Cendrowska -- Ritual use of flint - flintscape in action / Lars Larsson -- A relational perspective on entangled biographies in Southern Scandinavian Mesolithic hoards / Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist.
ISBN
  • 9781407356822
  • 9781407354415 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1407354418 (canceled/invalid)
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries