Search Results - "Metal"

European metals in native hands rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 / by Ehrhardt, Kathleen L., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change -- Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems -- Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program -- Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory -- Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective -- From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use -- Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history -- Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change.…”
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Economies of destruction : how the systematic destruction of valuables created value in Bronze Age Europe, c. 2300-500 BC / by Fontijn, David R.

Table of Contents: “…-- The value conundrum: what common things and splendid items share and why their deposition is selective -- Pre-Bronze Age selective deposition -- Trade hoards: the un-economic nature of the Bronze Age metal economy -- Gifts to familiar gods? -- The receiving landscape -- Economies of destruction: "keeping-while-destroying"?…”
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Picturing the Bronze Age /

Table of Contents: “…Rodríguez-Rellán -- A rock with a view : new perspectives on Danish rock art / Louise Felding -- Rock art and the alchemy of bronze : metal and images in early Bronze Age Scotland / Andrew Meirion Jones -- The "stranger king" (bull) and rock art / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling -- Trading images : exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age / Alberto Marretta -- Carl georg brunius : a pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research from the early nineteenth century / Jarl Nordbladh -- The maritime factor in the distribution of Bonze Age rock art in Galicia / Manuel Santos-Estévez and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña -- The alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age : a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences / Umberto Sansoni -- Rock art as history : representations of human images in a historical perspective / Peter Skoglund -- Sword-wielders and manslaughter : recently discovered images on the rock carvings of Brastad, western Sweden / Andreas Toreld.…”
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