'The Manx Stone Axe-head project. Interconnection or Isolation? The evidence from stone axe-heads for the Manx Neolithic in its Irish Sea context'
Date(s): June 2014
Creator(s): Kewley, Katie
Scope & Content: Illustrated PhD thesis submitted to the University of Liverpool. The author evaluates the polished stone axe-heads acquired by the Manx Museum since 1922 in an attempt to understand more about the island during later prehistory. She discusses the procurement, manufacture and disposal of the axe-heads, their morphological features, form and function, axe-head petrology, range of source rocks and proposed local provenances. Contemporaneous collections elsewhere are noted abd cursory comparisons made.
Language: English
Extent: 285 pages
Item name: thesis
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: MS 14423
Record class: Private
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