Axe-heads and identity : an investigation into the roles of imported axe-heads in identity formation in Neolithic Britain /: an investigation into the roles of imported axe-heads in identity formation in Neolithic Britain. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Katharine Walker.
• Authors: Walker, Katharine
• Contents: Preface and acknowledgements; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Re-connecting British and continental research traditions: dynamic approaches to the relationship between axe-heads and identity; Chapter Three: 'Afterlives'; Chapter Four: An investigation into the contexts of jade axe-heads found in Britain, using GIS terrain modelling of HER data; Chapter Five: 'Projet Breton' and the search for Group X; Chapter Six: 'Crudwell' type, 'Smerrick' type, and marbled all-over-polished axe-heads in Neolithic Britain; Chapter Seven: The rectangular-sectioned axe-head in Britain and its implications for understanding the Neolithic; Chapter Eight: Answering the original questions; Appendix One: Table of all known published jade axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations (correct until 2017). Shaded in grey are axe-heads with 'precise' find-spot locations, included in Appendix Two); Appendix Two: Find-spot locations, and archaeology of Mesolithic to Roman date within a 1000m radius, for 43 jade axe-heads found in Britain, presented as 41 GIS terrain models with accompanying text; Appendix Three: A table of all known Group X axe-heads and a table of Breton fibrolite axe-heads with attributed British find-spot locations; Appendix Four: Table of all published 'Crudwell-Smerrick' type axe-heads; Appendix Five: Table of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed. Highlighted in grey are axe-heads of probable Scandinavian origin. This is a summary of the information presented in Appendix Six; Appendix Six: Corpus of all known axe-heads with rectangular sections which have British find-spot locations attributed (summarised in Appendix Five); Appendix Seven: Caches and hoards of axe-heads in Britain. Please note, almost all of the data included in this corpus has been taken directly from Pitts 1996, Appendix One, with a few additions by the author; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 936.1; Axes, Prehistoric -- Great Britain; Neolithic period -- Great Britain; Civilization, Ancient; Great Britain -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784917456
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 2, 2018).
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