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2020
Book chapter
Alpine jades in the European Neolithic
Alpine jades in the European Neolithic - The ANR-funded programmes JADE 1 (2007-2011) and JADE 2 (2013-2017) investigated the production and the extraordinary diffusion of axeheads (large and small) made of Alpine jades on a Europe-wide scale. The phenomenon began during the middle of the sixth millennium BC and ended...Pétrequin, Pierre ; Pétrequin, Anne-Marie ; Sheridan, J A ; Cassen, Serge ; Gauthier, Estelle …
social organisation, European Neolithic, religion, exchange, alpine Jades, and axeheads
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2011
Journal article
From Mont Viso to Slovakia: the two axeheads of Alpine jade from Golianovo
Two fragments of large jadeitite axeheads were discovered in a Lengyel enclosure at Golianovo (Republic of Slovakia), close to Nitra. Spectroradiometric analysis and macroscopic characteristics indicate that, in all probability, these two artefacts — which are exceptional in this region of Europe — had come from the Neolithic quarries on...Pétrequin, P ; Errera, M ; Cassen, S ; Gauthier, E ; Hovorka, D …