9 Soapstone in the North Quarries, Products and People 7000 BC-AD 1700

Gitte Hansen, Per Storemyr, Nils Anfinset, Randi Knut, Andreas Bergsvik, Søren Diinhoff, Lars Forsberg, Irene Baug, Birgitta Berglund, Laura Bunse, Poul Heide, Richard Jones (+9 others)
unpublished
Preface This book has been a long time in the making. It is an outcome of the five Norwegian University Museums' joint research programme Forskning i Felleskap (FIF, 2010-2015), supported by the Research Council of Norway. FIF kindly facilitated a number of workshops and meetings between archaeologists, geologists and craftspeople, all with a common interest in premodern soapstone quarrying and use. The result is the chapters of this book, which are based on studies carried out over the last
more » ... decades and, for the most part, are published scientifically for the first time. We very much thank the authors for participating in this venture. We also thank several colleagues-archaeologists, geoscientists and craftspeople-that assisted the editors in peer-reviewing the chapters:
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