Hoards from the Neolithic to the Metal Ages: Technical and Codified Practices (BAR International)

Eleven papers from a session held at the EAA conference in Cork, Ireland, in 2005. Contents: 1) Hoards from the Neolithic to the Metal Ages: Technical and Codified Practices - Introduction (Caroline Hamon and Bénédicte Quilliec); 2) æTradersÆ hoardsÆ. Reviewing the Relationship between Trade and Permanent Deposition: the Case of the Dutch Voorhout Hoard (David Fontijn); 3) The Symbolic Value of Grindingstones Hoards: Technical Properties of Neolithic Examples (Caroline Hamon); 4) Neolithic Depositions in the Northern Netherlands (Karsten Wentink and Annelou van Gijn); 5) Interpretation Elements of Hoards from the Late Bronze Age in Lorraine and Saar through Technical Studies (forming process and metal composition) (Cécile Veber); 6) Iberian Psycho. Deliberate Destruction in Bronze Age Gold Hoards of the Iberian Peninsula (Alicia Perea); 7) Voluntary Destructions of Objects in Middle and Late Bronze Age Hoards in France (Maréva Gabillot and Céline Lagarde); 8) Use, Wear and Damage: Treatment of Bronze Swords before Deposition (Bénédicte Quilliec); 9) Doing away with Dichotomies? Comparative Use-Wear Analysis of Early Bronze Age Axes from Scotland (Shaun Moyler); 10) Hoards and Flint Blades in Western France at the End of the Neolithic (Ewen Ihuel); 11) Other than Bronze: Substances and Incorporation in Danish Bronze Age Hoards (Steven Matthews).

Caroline Hamon and Benedicte Quilliec