In:
Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, PERSEE Program, Vol. 95, No. 2 ( 1998), p. 239-254
Abstract:
Abstract The significance and chronology of hoards of polished stone axes in France appear difficult to understand unless they are placed in context, especially with regard to an important phenomenon of social evolution during the Neolithic in western Europe : the circulation of polished axes made of Alpine rocks (jadeite, eclogite...) from the inner Alps right to the veiy edge of the Atlantic façade (Portugal, Brittany, Ireland, northern Germany and Denmark). On the basis of an inventory of 730 polished stone blades (axes and adzes over 15 cm in length) and their own field work in the Alps, the authors put forward a well-argued interpretation of the transition from tool to social symbol during the 5th millennium cal. ВС and of the consequences of this on the exploitation of local types of rock in the Vosges and the Paris Basin.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0249-7638
DOI:
10.3406/bspf.1998.10770
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
1998
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2506497-6
SSG:
6,12
SSG:
6,11
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