Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain

by Mark Edmonds and Richard Bradley

Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and context of stone axe production and exchange in the British Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies, the authors explore some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological discussions of exchange at both a theoretical and a methodological level. Out of this critique arises an argument for an integrated approach to the production, circulation and consumption of past material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521619378
• ISBN13: 9780521619370
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"