Overview

Ce catalogue accompagne la publication de l'ouvrage "" Fleches de pouvoir a l'aube de la metallurgie de la Bretagne au Danemark (2500-1700 av. n. e.) "". Il rassemble pour la premiere fois un corpus d'armatures de fleches deposees dans les tombes de la fin du Neolithique et du Bronze ancien dans le Massif armoricain, dans le sud des iles Britanniques et au Danemark. Il contient la description (architecture, anthropologie, mobilier funeraire) de 231 sepultures, ayant livre un total de 1375 pointes de fleches. La plupart de ces armatures sont illustrees par 718 dessins (dont 200 originaux) et 454 photographies (dont 415 originales). A cela s'ajoutent la figuration des plans des tombes et du mobilier associe aux armatures. Ce corpus est enrichi d'un inventaire complementaire pour le Danemark de 274 pointes de fleches issues de 92 sepultures de datation plus incertaine. Enfin, l'ensemble des armatures etudiees sont decrites selon leurs dimensions, leurs matieres premieres et leurs lieux de conservation. This volume contains the catalogue belonging to the book "" Fleches de pouvoir a l'aube de la metallurgie de la Bretagne au Danemark (2500-1700 av. n. e.) "". It contains data on arrowheads deposited in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages graves in the Armorican Massif, in southern British Isles and in Denmark. Included are the description (architecture, anthropology, grave goods) of 231 burials, which have yielded a total of 1375 arrowheads, illustrated with a total of 718 drawings and 454 photographs. Find contexts are illustrated with plans of the burials and associated grave goods. This corpus is enriched with a complementary inventory of 274 arrowheads from 92 graves with more unsecure dating from Denmark. Finally, all arrowheads are described according to their metric dimensions, their raw materials and their location in museums.

Full Product Details

9789088903731

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Clément Nicolas is a postdoctoral researcher at the laboratory UMR 8215 Trajectoires (Nanterre, France). His researches focus on the first metalworking societies during the IIIrd and the IInd millennia BCE in Europe. As lithic specialist, he led studies on productions and functions of fancy archery-related items (arrowheads, bracers and so on) in several countries in order to track their biographies and their relations to social hierarchies: in France, Britain and Denmark during his PhD, in Central Europe as a postdoctoral fellow of the Foundation Fyssen. He works as well on the questions of craftsmanship and Atlantic exchange networks through the studies of a range of grave goods (metal artefacts, jewellery). In the meanwhile, he developed a field approach in Brittany leading or participating to several surveys and excavations on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods. These researches aim to study the territories and the structures of human settings (graves, settlements, field systems…) to provide a better understanding of the rise of highly stratified societies. Recently with Sidestone Press (2016), he published his PhD on prestigious arrowheads ‘Flèches de pouvoir à l’aube de la métallurgie de la Bretagne au Danemark (2500-1700 av. n. è.).

Tab Content 6

Countries Available