Bronze Age Metalwork Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC - Image 1

£85.00

Archaeopress Archaeology Bronze Age Metalwork Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC

Name: Bronze Age Metalwork Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC
Brand: Archaeopress Archaeology
Price: 85.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Europe

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£85 today · previous high £85 · all-time low £72

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 632 days • 632 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 632 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £85 (448 days, 70.9%)

Price range: £72 - £85

Price levels: 3 different prices over 632 days

Description

Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork studied here dates from 1500-1100 BC. An interdisciplinary investigation of the artefacts was adopted to elucidate their manufacture and origin, resulting in new insights into metal craft in northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Based on the habitus concept, which situates the craftsmen within their social and technological framework, individual artefact characteristics and metalworking techniques can be used to identify different craft practices, even to identify individual craftsmen. The conclusions drawn from this offer new insights into the complex organisation of metalcraft in the production of prestige goods across different workshops. Several kinship-based workshops on Jutland, in the Luneburg Heath and Mecklenburg, allow us to conclude that the bronze objects were a display of social status and hierarchy controlled by, and produced for, the elite - as is also seen in the workshops on Zealand. Within the two main metalworking regions, Zealand and central Lower Saxony, workshops can be defined as communities of practice that existed with an extended market and relations with the local elite. Attached craft, in the sense that the craftspeople fully depended on a governing institution and produced artefacts as a manifestation of political expression, was only detected on Zealand between 1500-1300 BC. The investigation presented here showed that overall results could not be achieved when concentrating only on one aspect of metalwork. Highly skilled craft is to be found in every kind of workshop, as well as an intensive labour input. Only when considering skill in relation to labour input and also taking into account signs of apprenticeship and cross-craft techniques, as well as the different categories of mistakes in crafting, can a stable image of craft organisation be created.

Product Specifications

Brand: Archaeopress Archaeology
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1789690196
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 19 October 2018
Listed Since: 27 September 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

Archaeopress Archaeology Bronze Age Metalwork Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Bronze Age Metalwork of South Western Britain: A corpus of material found between 1983 and 2014: 610 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Aspects of the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago and Beyond: Proceedings from the Belfast Bronze Age Forum, 9–10 November 2013

Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe

The Baltic in the Bronze Age: Regional Patterns, Interactions and Boundaries

The Bronze Age in Europe: An Introduction to the Prehistory of Europe c.2000-700 B.C. (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)

Metals, Minds and Mobility: Integrating Scientific Data with Archaeological Theory

The Bronze Age in Europe: An Introduction to the Prehistory of Europe c.2000-700 B.C. (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)

Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology

Arts and Crafts in Iron Age East Yorkshire: A holistic approach to pattern and purpose, c. 400BC-AD100: 660 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Gender and Society on the Margins of Bronze Age Europe

Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Economies of Destruction: How the systematic destruction of valuables created value in Bronze Age Europe, c. 2300-500 BC

The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent

The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans

Europe Before History (New Studies in Archaeology)

Technologies of Enchantment?: Exploring Celtic Art: 400 BC to AD 100

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Early Bronze Age Barrows at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire

Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age: 21 (Ancient Textiles Series)

Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark, vol 1+2: Vol. 1 and 2: 102 (Jutland Archaeological Society Publications)

The Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia (SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series)

Creativity in the Bronze Age: Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production

Later Prehistoric Settlement in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: Evidence from Five Excavations