Research Catalog

Title

Trade and exchange in prehistoric Europe : proceedings of a conference held at the University of Bristol, April 1992 / edited by Chris Scarre and Frances Healy.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow in association with the Prehistoric Society and the Société Préhistorique Française, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Healy, Frances.
• Prehistoric Society (London, England)
• Scarre, Christopher
• Société préhistorique française.

Description

v, 255 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Oxbow monograph ; 33

Uniform Title

Oxbow monograph ; 33.

Subject

• Commerce, Prehistoric > Europe > Congresses
• Europe > Antiquities > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Europe > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Europe > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Summaries in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Trade beyond the material / Colin Renfrew -- Trade and world systems in Early Bronze Age Western Asia / Christopher M. Edens and Philip L. Kohl -- Exchange, foraging and local hominid networks / Clive Gamble -- Neolithic quarries, the exchange of axes and social control in the southern Vosges / Pierre Pétrequin, François Jeudy and Christian Jeunesse -- Trade in Neolithic jadeite axes from the Alps / Monique Ricq-de Bouard -- Toward a context for production and exchange / Mark Edmonds -- Megalithic tombs and megalithic art in Atlantic Europe / Elizabeth Shee Twohig
• The exchange of obsidian at Neolithic sites in Italy / Albert J. Ammerman and Christopher Polglase -- Neolithic exchange in central and southern Italy / Robin Skates -- The origin of metal used for making weapons in Early and Middle Minoan Crete / Zofia Stos-Gale -- The circulation af amber in prehistoric Europe / Colette du Gardin -- Social evolution and horse domestication / Marsha A. Levine -- From Villanova to Seddin. The reconstruction of an elite exchange network during the eighth century BC / Kristian Kristiansen -- europe and the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age: cores and peripheries / Anthony Harding -- Displacement and exchange in archaeological methodology / Stuart Needham -- East-west relations in the Paris Basin during the Late Bronze Age / Patrice Brun -- Relations between Brittany and Great Britain during the Bronze Age / Jacques Briard
• Cooking for the elite: feasting equipment in the Late Bronze Age / José Gomez de Soto -- Prehistoric seafaring in the channel / Seán McGrail -- The social significance of trade in Late Iron Age Europe / Greg Woolf -- Cheshire cats, Mickey mice, the new Europe and ancient Celic art / J.V.S. Megaw and M. Ruth Megaw -- Ethnicity and exchange: Germans, Celts and Romans in the Late (pre-Roman) Iron Age / A.P. Fitzpatrick -- 'Who are you calling peripheral?' Dependence and independence in European prehistory / Andrew Sherratt.

ISBN

094689762X (pbk)

LCCN

gb^94014980^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library