Stones & Pretty Things
Pretty pretty, shiny shiny—today’s advent contains the best we have to offer for material archaeology, looking at stones, gems, and personal adornments!
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The ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia)
English edition of classic French publication on the manufacture, exchange and social and economic significance of New Guinea axes.
9781789253863
Hardcover
336 Pages
Personal Ornaments in Prehistory
An exploration of body augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age
Explores how and why the human relationship with ornaments such as beads, bracelets, necklaces, and pendants developed and continued over tens of thousands of years
9781789252866
Paperback
272 Pages
Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe
An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective
A new, ethoarchaeological examination of the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe and through Britain and Ireland which questions when and why these practices were adopted, and what role extraction sites played in Neolithic society.
9781789257052
Hardcover
200 Pages
The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments
Major new series of studies combining latest scientific analysis techniques with archaeological data in a series of case studies coverving technological, social and symbolic attributes of beads in prehistoric cultures
9781785706929
Hardcover
224 Pages
