Flint daggers in prehistoric Europe / edited by Catherine J. Frieman and Berit Valentin Eriksen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: flint daggers: a historical, typological and methodological primer / Catherine J. Frieman & Berit Valentin Eriksen -- Lithic daggers in the ancient Near East: whence and whither? / Thomas Zimmermann -- Dagger-like flint implements in Bronze Age Egypt / Carolyn Graves-Brown -- Origins and development of flint daggers in Italy / Denis Guilbeau -- On flint and copper daggers in Chalcolithic Italy / Daniel Steiniger -- The Pressigny phenomenon / Ewen Ihuel, Jacques Pelegrin, Nicole Mallet & Christain Verjux -- The cultural biography of the Scandinavian daggers in the northern Netherlands / Annelou Van Gijn -- A parallel-flaked Scandinavian type flint dagger from Lent: an indicator of contacts between the central Netherlands and northern Jutland during Bell Beaker times / Erik Drenth -- Bloody daggers: a discussion of the function of late Neolithic flint daggers from a south Scandinavian point of view / Jeanette Varberg -- Making a point: re-evaluating British flint daggers in their cultural and technological contexts / Catherine J. Frieman -- Bifacial flint daggers from the early Bronze Age in Volhynia-lesser Poland / Witold Gruzdz, Witold Migal & Katarzyna Pyzewicz -- Silicite daggers from the territories of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (a preliminary study) / Antonín Prichystal & Lubomír Sebela -- Metal adoption and the emergence of stone daggers in northeast Asia / Shinya Shoda -- "Art thou but a dagger of the mind?" Understanding lithic daggers in Europe and beyond / Catherine J. Frieman.

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