Interpreting the Axe Trade documents the changing character and
context of stone axe production and exchange in the British
Neolithic. Drawing on a variety of studies, the authors explore
some of the problems and potentials that attend archaeological
discussions of exchange at both a theoretical and a methodological
level. Out of this critique arises an argument for an integrated
approach to the production, circulation and consumption of past
material - an approach which acknowledges the subtle and complex
roles that 'things' may play in the reproduction of social life.
These arguments provide the basis for a case study which explores
the links between the social contexts within which Neolithic stone
axes circulated in Britain, and the social and material conditions
under which those objects were originally produced. Field survey,
excavation and detailed technological studies at the largest stone
axe source in Britain are set alongside analyses of the changing
character and social context of axe circulation and deposition
across the country as a whole. These different analytical threads
are then woven together in the final section of the book, where the
authors suggest that the patterns explored in the course of their
work reflect major changes in the nature of social life during the
Neolithic.
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