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Metals, minds and mobility : integrating scientific data with archaeological theory /

"Metals, Minds and Mobility seeks to integrate archaeometallurgical data with archaeological theory to address longstanding questions about mechanisms of exchange, mobility and social complexity in prehistory. The circulation of metal has long been viewed as a catalyst for social, economic and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Armada, X. L. (Editor ), Murillo-Barroso, Mercedes (Editor ), Charlton, Michael F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Metals, minds and mobility: an introduction / Xosé-Lois Armada, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso and Mike Charlton
  • pt. 1. Transmission of metallurgical technologies, knowledge and ideas. 2. On Europe, the Mediterranean and the myth of passive peripheries / Tobias L. Kienlin ; 3. Metal artefacts circulation in the Eneolithic period from southeastern Romania: a case study / Catalin Lazar, Adelina Darie, Gheorghe Niculescu and Migdonia Georgescu ; 4. On Quimbaya goldwork (Colombia), lost wax casting and ritual practice in America and Europe / Alicia Perea ; 5. Bronze production and tin provenance
  • new thoughts about the spread of metallurgical knowledge / Bianka Nessel, Gerhard Brügmann, Daniel Berger, Carolin Frank, Janeta Marahrens and Ernst Pernicka
  • pt. 2.: Prestige economies and exchange. 6. Unequal exchange and the articulation of modes of re-production / Michael Rowlands ; 7. Why was (and is) silver sexy? Silver during the 4th-3rd millennia in the Near East and Mesopotamia / Susan Sherratt ; 8. Gold, conspicuous consumption and prestige
  • a relationship in need of review. The case of Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero
  • pt. 3. Circulation of metal as commodities. 9. Biography, prosopography and the density of scientific data: Some arguments from the metallurgy of Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland / Peter Bray ; 10. The role of pre-Norsemen in trade and exchange of commodities in Bronze Age Europe / Lene Melheim, Johan Ling, Zofia A. Stos-Gale, Eva Hjärthner-Holdar and Lena Grandin ; 11. Lead and copper mining in Priorat county (Tarragona, Spain): From cooperative exchange networks to colonial trade (2600-500 BC) / Núria Rafel Fontanals, Ignacio Soriano, Xosé-Lois Armada, Mark A. Hunt Ortiz and Ignacio Montero-Ruiz
  • pt. 4. Concluding remarks. 12. Mobility, minds and metals: The end of archaeological science? / Marcos Martinón-Torres.