Recycling ideas
Subtitle: Bronze Age metal production in southern Norway
By: Lene Melheim
Series: BAR international series -- 2715; BAR international series -- 2715.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781407313689
Subjects: Metal-work, Prehistoric; Metalworking industries; Bronze age; Antiquities
Other titles: Bronze Age metal production in southern Norway
Description: The aim of the study is to examine technological, cognitive and symbolic aspects of metallurgy in southern Norway from the Bronze Age (i.e. 1700-500 cal. BC to the beginning of the Late Neolothic, i.e. c. 2400 cal. BC. Two sets of ideas are scrutinized: 1) ideas that have governed and still govern archaeological concepts of the Bronze Age, and 2) ideas that moulded Bronze Age mentality, arising, it is argued, from physical experience with metallurgy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232).
Table of contents: title: Bronze Age metal production and webs of significance; title: When metallurgy mattered. Metal production in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age; title: Analyzing metalwork; title: Metallurgy in practice; title: The import dogma; title: Raw material; title: Recycling ideas.