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An ethnography of the Neolithic : early prehistoric societies in southern Scandinavia / Christopher Tilley.

Title
An ethnography of the Neolithic : early prehistoric societies in southern Scandinavia / Christopher Tilley.
Author
Tilley, Christopher Y.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Description
xix, 363 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
Series Statement
New studies in archaeology
Uniform Title
New studies in archaeology.
Subject
  • Neolithic period > Sweden
  • Neolithic period > Denmark
  • Mesolithic period > Sweden
  • Mesolithic period > Denmark
  • Ethnoarchaeology > Sweden
  • Ethnoarchaeology > Denmark
  • Megalithic monuments > Sweden
  • Megalithic monuments > Denmark
  • Sweden > Antiquities
  • Denmark > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-360) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: archaeology as long-term material ethnography -- pt. I. The Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic. 1. The original affluent society. 2. Axes, pots and monuments -- pt. II. Stone Monuments and Society in the Middle Neolithic. 3. Monument construction and social competition. 4. Settlement, tomb, and landscape. 5. Death and body symbolism. 6. The social lives of artefacts. 7. Neolithic politics and a religion of the body -- Epilogue: Working with metaphors.
ISBN
0521590969 (hc) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^^95038470^
OCLC
33078575
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library