Abstract

The metal tools of the Late Bronze Age in Europe, though lying at the heart of much discussion of technology and metallurgy, have remained less considered as objects which manifest the ‘idea’ of craft, both in being made and in being a means of making. In 1950 Robert Forbes lamented that too little attention was paid to Bronze Age metal tool finds save through typologies; nearly 70 years on, with some exceptions such as use-wear analysis, to a great extent that lament still stands.

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