Flint daggers in prehistoric Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Frieman, Catherine, 1982- (Author, Editor), Eriksen, Berit Valentin (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Edition:Hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Flint daggers : a historical, typological and methodological primer / Catherine J. Frieman & Berit Valentin Eriksen
  • 1. Lithic daggers in the ancient Near East : whence and whither? / Thomas Zimmermann
  • 2. Dagger-like flint implements in Bronze Age Egypt / Carolyn Graves-Brown
  • 3. Origins and development of flint daggers in Italy / Denis Guilbeau
  • 4. On flint and copper daggers in Chalcolithic Italy / Daniel Steiniger
  • 5. The Pressigny phenomenon / Ewen Ihuel, Jacques Pelegrin, Nicole Mallet & Christian Verjux
  • 6. The cultural biography of the Scandinavian daggers in the northern Netherlands / Annelou Van Gijn
  • 7. A parallel-flaked Scandinavian type flint dagger from Lent : an indicator of contacts between the central Netherlands and northern Jutland during Bell Beaker times / Erik Drenth
  • 8. Bloody daggers : a discussion of the function of late Neolithic flint daggers from a South Scandinavian point of view / Jeanette Varberg
  • 9. Making a point : re-evaluating British flint daggers in their cultural and technological contexts / Catherine J. Frieman
  • 10. Bifacial flint daggers from the early Bronze Age in Volhynia-Lesser Poland / Witold Grużdź, Witold Migal & Katarzyna Pyżewicz
  • 11. Silicite daggers from the territories of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (a preliminary study) / Antonín Přichystal & Lubomír Šebela
  • 12. Metal adoption and the emergence of stone daggers in northeast Asia / Shinya Shoda
  • 13. 'Art thou but a dagger of the mind?' : understanding lithic daggers in Europe and beyond / Catherine J. Frieman.