May 10, 2024
Techniques Of Bone And Antler Processing In Early Bronze Age Poland
Techniques Of Bone And Antler Processing In Early Bronze Age Poland
A new book entitled Metal and Worked Bone Materials in Prehistoric Europe: From Iberia to the Carpathians (MARQ: Museo Arqueológico de Alicante) includes a chapter of that title co-authored by Fulbright Research Fellow Justyna Baron.
The essay challenges the prevailing concept of an evolutionary and linear transition of how metal tools replaced flint ones right after bronze metallurgy spread over Europe around 2000 BCE. The authors argue that various patterns of tool selection were not diachronic but depended on the rank and network in which particular manufacturing centers participated. The piece also contributes to a general discussion about the reception of technological innovations in communities of various degrees of social complexity.
May 10. 2024
