Written in Stone : papers on the function, form, and provenancing of prehistoric stone objects in memory of Fiona Roe

Weitere Verfasser: Roe, Fiona.
Shaffrey, Ruth.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: St. Andrews : The Highfield Press, 2017.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Southampton Monographs in Archaeology
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Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Dedication to Fiona Roe / Nath Alcock, Fenella Heckscher, Ruth Shaffrey and Katharine Walker
  • Introduction : the history of stone artefact studies / Fiona Roe
  • Process, form and time : maceheads in an Orcadian context / Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Ann Clarke, Mark Edmonds and Antonia Thomas
  • Cornish axe groupings, not Cornish axe factories : new work on sourcing of Neolithic stone axes in Cornwall / Andy M. Jones, Henrietta Quinnell and Roger Taylor
  • A critical review of Group IV implements and sources : fact and opinion / Vin Davis
  • North Roes felstie and Shetland's felsite material culture / Torben Ballin
  • Stone battle axe production in Yorkshire / Terry Manby
  • Sizing up Neolithic saddle querns / John Cruse
  • The significance of quernstones : defining bell beaker 'domestic burials' at Amesbury Down, Wiltshire / Alistair Barclay and Pippa Bradley
  • The quernstones of Glastonbury and Meare / Susan Watts
  • 'The famous volcanic rock of the Eifel' / Andrew Fitzpatrick
  • The beach as source and destination / Richard Bradley
  • A re-investigation of British stone 'loomweights' / Ruth Shaffrey
  • Towards a methodology for the study of prehistoric jet and jet-like jewellery / Alison Sheridan
  • Polissoirs : social memory in the Avebury landscape / Michele Drisse
  • More than 'other stone' : new methods to analyse prehistoric chalk artefacts / Anne Teather
  • Beaker-age bracers made from Langdale rock : the new find from Cranbrook, Devon in context / Fiona Roe and Ann Woodward.