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Author:   Henry Skorna
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
Volume:   15
ISBN:  

9789464270303

ISBN 10:   9464270306
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   08 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface of the Series Editors Preface of the Head of the Department of Archaeology of the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Foreword 1. Introduction 1.1 Definition of hoard finds 2. Topographical posistion of Neuenkirchen 3. State of research on the Funnel Beaker North Group in present-day Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 4. Chronology of the Funnel Beaker Societies 5. Anthropogenic activities in the surroundings of Neuenkirchen at the time of the Funnel Beaker Societies 5.1 Settlement activities 5.2 The settlement sites of Warlin, Brunn, Carpin, Jatznick, Glasow and Gristow 5.3 Funnel Beaker Period hoards and megalithic graves in the vicinity of Neuenkirchen 5.4 Summary of anthropogenic activities in the vicinity of Neuenkirchen 6. Finds and features of the hoard find from Neuenkirchen 6.1 Description of the findings 7. Analysis of traces of manufacture and use 7.1 Damage 7.2 Reworkings 7.3 Addressing possible signs of use and manufacture on the Neuenkirchen hoard inventory 8. X-ray flurorescence and lead isotopes analyses 8.1 History of research on chemical metal analyses in archaeology 8.2 Functionality of X-ray fluorescence analysis 8.3 Limits and difficulties 8.4 Information depths and patina 8.5 Realisation of the own pXRF analyses 8.6 Results 9. Early Copper in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 9.1 Overview of the copper finds 9.2 Chronological position of the copper finds 10. Typo-chronological analyses of the Neuenkirchen artefacts 10.1 Dagger 10.2 Dagger typology 10.3 The flat axe from Neuenkirchen 10.4 The arm spiral from Neuenkirchen 10.5 The band spiral from Neuenkirchen 10.6 The sheet metal fragment from Neuenkirchen 10.7 Excursus: Pars pro toto of a necklace of band spiral and pendants? 10.8 Overall chronological assessment of the hoard from Neuenkirchen 11. Neuenkirchen in the mirror of the development of Early Metallurgy in Southeast Europe 12. Neuenkirchen - profane, ritual and/or social practice? 13. Summary 14. References

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"""[A] detailed, multifaceted study of six metal objects found in a Funnel Beaker Culture settlement pit in 1999... The deposit he analyzed is rare and interesting, and it certainly does help shed new light on early European copper metallurgy.""-- ""Journal of Anthropological Research"""

""[A] detailed, multifaceted study of six metal objects found in a Funnel Beaker Culture settlement pit in 1999... The deposit he analyzed is rare and interesting, and it certainly does help shed new light on early European copper metallurgy.""-- ""Journal of Anthropological Research""

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Henry Skorna studied Pre- and Protohistory (MA) and Pedagogics (BA) at Christian-Albrecht-University, Kiel (2010-2017), was a research assistant at the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (2017-2019), and since October 2019 is a PhD candidate at the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, Christian-Albrecht-University, Kiel.

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