Rohstoff, Form und Funktion: Fuenf Studien zum Neolithikum Mitteleuropas

by Josef Winiger

Five studies on raw material, form and function in Neolithic Europe, in which Winiger aims to show the high quality of prehistoric manufactured objects and considers them as an expression of the wants adn intentions of prehistoric man, this giving access to his spiritual life by an application of what lingistic sicence teaches about the connection between form and content, Topics are ploughs, tools & weapons, double axes, daggers, and round cheeses. Summaries of every separate study in English.

242 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1999