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Archaeology Of Touchstones An Introduction Based On Finds From Birka Sweden Martin Jeek

Name: Archaeology Of Touchstones An Introduction Based On Finds From Birka Sweden Martin Jeek
SKU: BELL-43256986
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Archaeology Of Touchstones An Introduction Based On Finds From Birka Sweden Martin Jeek instant download after payment.

Publisher: Sidestone Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 17.47 MB

Pages: 220

Author: Martin Ježek

ISBN: 9789088905186, 9789088905179, 9088905185, 9088905177

Language: English

Year: 2017

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Archaeology Of Touchstones An Introduction Based On Finds From Birka Sweden Martin Jeek by Martin Ježek 9789088905186, 9789088905179, 9088905185, 9088905177 instant download after payment.

Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century? Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with archaeologists' ideas about the spiritual world of the society in question. The book introduces a recently discovered phenomenon that accompanied mankind from his discovery of the uses of metal all the way through to the Middle Ages - that is the importance of touchstones, tools used to determine the nature and test the nature and value of non-ferrous metals. Of the hundreds of thousands of such finds, which have most often been regarded as 'whetstones', the author has made a selection of specimens that cast light on the role of touchstones in the culture of ancient societies, especially in the burial ritual.