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Despite its prosaic title, Stone Axe Studies III, edited by our Fellow Mark Edmonds and Vin Davis, and with numerous Fellows amongst the contributors opens a window into the many different manifestations of this obsession with stone at different times and in different parts of the world, from Norway to India and Papua New Guinea, and from the Neolithic to the twenty-first century. The twenty-seven papers look at every aspect of the quarrying of the raw materials, the making of the axes, their uses as tools and as gifts and as objects of trade, their distribution, symbolism and social significance. What emerges is a sense not of stone as inert and intractable, but as something alive and potent: think not of Stonehenge as an arrangement of stones in a Wiltshire field, but as something pulsating with an innate energy capable of being harvested and used. * SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newsletter *

Despite its prosaic title, Stone Axe Studies III, edited by our Fellow Mark Edmonds and Vin Davis, and with numerous Fellows amongst the contributors (ISBN 9781842174210; Oxbow Books), opens a window into the many different manifestations of this obsession with stone at different times and in different parts of the world, from Norway to India and Papua New Guinea, and from the Neolithic to the twenty-first century. The twenty-seven papers look at every aspect of the quarrying of the raw materials, the making of the axes, their uses as tools and as gifts and as objects of trade, their distribution, symbolism and social significance. What emerges is a sense not of stone as inert and intractable, but as something alive and potent: think not of Stonehenge as an arrangement of stones in a Wiltshire field, but as something pulsating with an innate energy capable of being harvested and used.' -- Christopher Catling SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newsletter No. 259, No. 256, 6 June 2011

Despite its prosaic title, Stone Axe Studies III, edited by our Fellow Mark Edmonds and Vin Davis, and with numerous Fellows amongst the contributors (ISBN 9781842174210; Oxbow Books), opens a window into the many different manifestations of this obsession with stone at different times and in different parts of the world, from Norway to India and Papua New Guinea, and from the Neolithic to the twenty-first century. The twenty-seven papers look at every aspect of the quarrying of the raw materials, the making of the axes, their uses as tools and as gifts and as objects of trade, their distribution, symbolism and social significance. What emerges is a sense not of stone as inert and intractable, but as something alive and potent: think not of Stonehenge as an arrangement of stones in a Wiltshire field, but as something pulsating with an innate energy capable of being harvested and used.' -- Christopher Catling SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newsletter, No. 259 1 August 2011

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Mark Edmonds teaches for the UHI having recently retired as a lecturer in archaeology at York. He specialises in flint artefacts and prehistoric landscapes.

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