ROCK PHYSICS AND THE NEOLITHIC AXE TRADE IN GREAT BRITAIN
ROCK PHYSICS AND THE NEOLITHIC AXE TRADE IN GREAT BRITAIN
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岩石物理学和英国新石器时代的斧头贸易
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4754.1992.tb00494.x
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发表时间：
1992
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
M. Edmonds
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作者：
R. Bradley;P. Meredith;J. Smith;M. Edmonds
本文涉及英国高地一些新石器时代采石场的产品。它调查了这样一种说法，即斧头分布的规模部分是社会因素的结果，导致这些文物在远离其来源的地区获得了附加值。一项案例研究考虑了坎布里亚郡的生产顺序与该地区不同地区开采的岩石的抗拉强度的关系。它表明，这些考虑因素对石源的选择和加工规模的影响有限。第二项研究将用于制造非燧石轴的主要原材料的拉伸强度与这些来源的实际利用程度进行了比较。同样，两者之间的关系也很有限，这表明社会因素可能确实很重要。
This paper is concerned with the products of a number of Neolithic quarries in highland Britain. It investigates the claim that the scale of axe distribution was partly the result of social factors which resulted in these artefacts gaining an added value in areas remote from their sources. One case study considers the sequence of production in Cumbria, in relation to the tensile strength of the rock quarried in different parts of the region. It shows that these considerations had only a limited influence over the choice of stone source and the scale on which it was worked. A second study compares the tensile strength of the main raw materials used for making non-flint axes with the extent to which these sources were actually exploited. Again there is only a limited relationship between the two, suggesting that social factors may indeed have been important.