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Five studies on raw material, form and function in Neolithic Europe, in which Winiger aims to show the high quality of prehistoric manufactured objects and considers them as an expression of the wants adn intentions of prehistoric man, this giving access to his spiritual life by an application of what lingistic sicence teaches about the connection between form and content, Topics are ploughs, tools & weapons, double axes, daggers, and round cheeses. Summaries of every separate study in English.Winiger, Josef is the author of 'Rohstoff, Form and Funktion : Fünf Studien Zum Neolithikum Mitteleuropas', published 1999 under ISBN 9780860549970 and ISBN 0860549976.
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