Broyage et abrasion au Néolithique ancien

Caractérisation technique et fonctionnelle des outillages en grès du Bassin parisien

£87.00
Author:
Caroline Hamon
Publication Year:
2006
Language:
French with abstracts in German and English
ISBN:
9781841719801
Paperback:
347pp. Includes 119 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 80 plates. 15 data Appendices. With additional material online (colour figures)
ISBN 10:
1841719803
BAR number:
S1551
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This study is based on analysis of sandstone tools from thirty or so early Neolithic settlement sites from the Paris Basin, Hainaut and Hesbaye, dating to the Bandkeramik (Rubané) and Villeneuve-Saint-Germain cultures. Almost ten thousand objects, including seven hundred tools, were examined in terms of typology, technology and function. The work shows how knowledge of the integration of sandstone tools in the technological system can advance our general understanding of everyday domestic activities in Neolithic societies.