The Origins and Early Development of European Fibulae

1982/01/01 by John H. Alexander, John Alexander, Sheila Hopkin · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

paper · doi:10.1017/s0079497x00008446

Abstract

The invention and acceptance in Europe of an ingenious metal clothes-fastener in the late second and early first millennia BC has long been known. Interest in it and its several thousand variant forms has been concentrated mainly on their importance as type fossils for chronological systems and, more recently, on how they were used, but there has been little study of how or why the ideas spread (Alexander 1973b). Here an attempt will be made to show where the inventions took place and which communities first accepted them.

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