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Author Foulds, Elizabeth Marie, author

Title Dress and identity in Iron Age Britain : a study of glass beads and other objects of personal adornment / Elizabeth M. Foulds
Published Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Previous Approaches to Glass Beads; Chapter 3: Glass Beads & Dress; Chapter 4: The Nature of the Archaeological Resource in the Regions; Chapter 5: Typological Conundrums, Quandaries, and Resolutions; Chapter 6: Form and Regional Identity; Chapter 7: Archaeological Context; Chapter 8: Regional Bodily Adornment; Chapter 9: Glass Beads in their Social Context; Appendix A: Terminology & Guide to Recording Glass Beads; Appendix B: Guido Iron Age Glass Bead Types; Appendix C: List of All New Types; Guide to the Illustrated Glass Beads; Bibliography; Index
Summary Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book explores the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 6, 2017)
Subject Iron age -- Great Britain
Glass beads -- Great Britain -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Glass beads
Iron age
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- To 1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056947
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784915270
9781784915278