A Biography in Stone: Typology, Age, Function and Meaning of Early Neolithic Perforated Wedges in the Netherlands

This monograph explores the biography of an enigmatic type of material culture: the perforated wedges from the Early Neolithic (c. 5000-4000 cal. BC) in northwestern Europe. These themes are explored in a multi-facetted approach which compares the finds from three regions: the so-called source societies in Germany where the wedges were produced and two areas in which these items are found as a result of exchange. It concerns southern Scandinavia (the Erteble culture) and the Netherlands (the …