Book
The Beaker folk: copper age archaeology in Western Europe
Thames and Hudson • 97 • Published In 1980 • Pages: 176
By: Harrison, Richard J. (Richard John).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book attempts to give an intelligible account of the Copper Age in Western Europe of which the Bell Beaker culture forms an integral part. The information presented here is based largely on a representative selection of published primary material from several major regions of Europe, as well as North Africa, with a concentration on those publications which are the newest and most authoritative in their field (p. 6).The author describes the development of the Bell Beaker complex in each of the areas selected discussing in turn variations within regions based to a large extent on the examination of the characteristic Bell Beaker pottery types as well as the cultural artifacts from various settlement and grave sites. The work is well illustrated with a number of drawings, maps, and photographs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Weapons
- General tools
- Visual arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bell Beaker
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- General Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard J. Harrison
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 167-170) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81126569
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bell beaker culture