The exploitation of raw materials in prehistory
Subtitle: sourcing, processing and distribution
By: edited by Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas and Nuno Bicho
Contributors: Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution (2016 : University of Algarve)
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9781527505230; 9781443895972
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Archaeology; Methodology; HISTORY; Ancient; General
Description: This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are study.
Notes: This book contains some of the studies presented in the meeting: Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution held in March 2016, at the University of Algarve, Portugal.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Twenty SevenChapter Twenty Eight; title: Chapter Twenty Nine; title: Chapter Thirty; title: Chapter Thirty One; title: Chapter Thirty Two; title: Chapter Thirty Three; title: Chapter Thirty Four; title: Chapter Thirty Five; title: Chapter Thirty Six; title: Chapter Thirty Seven; title: Chapter Thirty Eight; title: Chapter Thirty Nine; title: Chapter Forty; title: Chapter Forty One; title: Chapter Forty Two