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Artefact Biographies from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe and Beyond

Papers in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn
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This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou started her research with the use-wear analysis of prehistoric flint from the Netherlands, and she extended her interests in every possible direction: time, space, materials and technologies. This volume has been compiled to reflect the broad oeuvre of her work. It focuses on the biographies of a wide range of artefact types made from an equally wide range of materials from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe, but also glimpses beyond into other periods and geographic regions. The papers focus on different aspects of artefact biographies including raw material acquisition, artefact production, use, and discard, and even the afterlife of objects in our modern society. The objects in question include quotidian tools such as querns and harvesting tools, adhesives that held objects together, and elaborate objects such as maceheads, jewellery, and flint superblades. Whatever the subject of Annelou’s individual publications, at the heart of all of her work is the love of objects and the stories that they have to tell us. The stories in this bundle are a testament of her contagious enthusiasm.

Author Biography:

Annemieke Verbaas is a use-wear specialist and experimental archaeologist at the Leiden University and Stichting LAB. She has studied archaeological Sciences at Leiden University. She has worked on the objects from many contract archaeology sites in the Netherlands and several large research projects. Geeske Langejans is an Assistant Professor and prehistoric archaeologist, specialised in material analysis. Her lab at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, combines practical material analysis of objects, computational modelling, ethnography and experimental archaeology to unravel ancient technological systems and the evolution of technological behaviour. Aim�e Little is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of York where she Directs the Centre for Artefacts and Materials Analysis (CAMA) and the York Experimental Archaeological Research (YEAR) Centre and co-Directs the Masters in Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology programme. Her primary research specialism is prehistoric hunter-gatherer material culture, with a focus on the Northern European Mesolithic. Ben Chan is a prehistoric archaeologist and a lithics analyst focusing on all forms of techno-typological analyses and use-wear analysis. He has a particular interest in settlement archaeology and the archaeology of craft and subsistence practices. Ben has worked extensively on the Neolithic landscapes of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Orkney. He currently works at the University of Bristol having previously held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship at Leiden University.
Release date Australia
May 30th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Aimée Little
  • Edited by Annemieke Verbaas
  • Edited by Ben Chan
  • Edited by Geeske Langejans
Illustrations
81fc / 14bw
Pages
220
ISBN-13
9789464261516
Product ID
38755259

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