Exchange, status and mobility : Mesolithic portable art of southern Scandinavia /
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Author / Creator: | Nash, George. |
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Imprint: | Oxford : Archaeopress, 1998. |
Description: | xiii, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | BAR international series 710 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3302304 |
Summary: | This book is an attempt to reconstruct a Mesolithic framework around a little-known artefacts that express probable social complexity within a so-called functional hunter/gatherer system. Artistic representation in the form of decorated bone, antlerand amber portrays a society that not only hunted, fished and gathered, but also believed in totemics. |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | xiii, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. 163-167. |
ISBN: | 0860548910 |