Knowledge, know-how and raw material - The production of Late Neolithic flint daggers in Scandinavia

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-111

  Apel, Jan ^a  

^a Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apprenticeship; Complexity; Operational chain; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249093517     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-007-9044-2     Document Type: Article

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