Author : Patrick C. Vaughan
Publisher : Century Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816535828
"Vaughan's monograph provides a thorough treatment of the high-power microscopic approach to lithic use-wear analysis and will contribute to the resolution of this issue. An excellent introduction to the subject"--North American Arcaeologist.
Author : Sylvie Beyries
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2021-04-23
Category :
ISBN : 9789464260007
This book brings together 30 papers by leading scholars in the field of usewear and residue analysis. This publication aims to revive the debate on the role of traceology (use-wear and residues) in multidisciplinary approaches that address archaeological questions. Many studies on technological aspects of material culture deal with specific material categories (e.g. flint, ceramics, bone), often in separate or isolated ways, and this division does not really reflect the integrated nature of technical systems in which different material categories are in dynamic interaction. Hence, exploring the interaction between different chaînes opératoires is crucial for a more global concept of the toolkit with all its components and it is a precondition for paleo-ethnographic reconstructions of technical systems and economies. Starting from a functional perspective, the papers in this book explore various topics such as apprenticeship, group dynamics, social status, economy, technological evolution, spatial organization, mobility patterns and territories, or adaptations to cultural and environmental changes. This collection of papers, presented at the AWRANA conference in 2018, constitutes a major sign of the dynamism, popularity and scientific importance of our discipline in current archaeological research. AWRANA 2018 was dedicated to the memory of H. Keeley.
Author : Brian Hayden
Publisher : New York : Academic Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Includes papers by J. Kamminga which has been annotated separately.
Author : João Manuel Marreiros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319082574
This book is designed to act as a readily accessible guide to different methods and techniques of use-wear and residue analysis and therefore includes a wide range of different and complementary essential topics: experimental tests, observation and record methods and techniques and the interpretation of a diversity of tool types and worked raw materials. The onset of use-wear studies was marked by the development of theory, method and techniques in order to infer prehistoric tools functionality and, therefore, understand human technological, social and cultural behavior. The last decade of functional studies, use-wear and residue analysis have been aimed at the observation, recording and interpretation of different activities and worked materials found on archaeological tools made on different types of organic and non-organic materials. This international group of contributions will be fundamental for all researchers and students of the discipline.
Author : Antonella Pedergnana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527537870
Quartzite is a particularly frequently used lithology for knapping stone tools throughout all stages of human evolution. Despite this, however, there is a surprising lack of detailed methodological research on the formation and appearance of use-wear on this type of rock. As such, this book fills in a gap in the research, and proposes a new method to analyse use-wear on quartzite, by evaluating the variability of use-wear appearance on different rock varieties. This book is conceived as a handbook for the application of microwear analysis on quartzite, and is addressed to both students and lithic use-wear analysists. The extreme surface irregularities of quartzite, mainly due to its microcrystalline structure and the diverse orientation of quartz crystals surfaces, have always been regarded as a major obstacle when applying use-wear analysis. As shown here, the use of scanning electron microscopy allows this and other obstacles when observing highly reflective surfaces, such as quartzite, to be overcome.
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441990097
This practical volume does not intend to replace a mentor, but acts as a readily accessible guide to the basic tools of lithic analysis. The book was awarded the 2005 SAA Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. Some focuses of the manual include: history of stone tool research; procurement, manufacture and function; assemblage variability. It is an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the prehistoric period.
Author : Nuno Bicho
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443873454
The significance of use-wear studies in archaeological research plays an important role as a proxy to prehistoric techno-cultural reconstruction. The present volume, divided into five thematic sections, includes chapters discussing various different research methods, techniques, chronologies and regions. As such, this volume will be of interest to both archaeologists and anthropologists.
Author : Brian Patrick Kooyman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826323330
Covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107006988
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Author : Jeffrey R. Ferguson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1607320231
Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology is a guide for the design of archaeological experiments for both students and scholars. Experimental archaeology provides a unique opportunity to corroborate conclusions with multiple trials of repeatable experiments and can provide data otherwise unavailable to archaeologists without damaging sites, remains, or artifacts. Each chapter addresses a particular classification of material culture-ceramics, stone tools, perishable materials, composite hunting technology, butchering practices and bone tools, and experimental zooarchaeology-detailing issues that must be considered in the development of experimental archaeology projects and discussing potential pitfalls. The experiments follow coherent and consistent research designs and procedures and are placed in a theoretical context, and contributors outline methods that will serve as a guide in future experiments. This degree of standardization is uncommon in traditional archaeological research but is essential to experimental archaeology. The field has long been in need of a guide that focuses on methodology and design. This book fills that need not only for undergraduate and graduate students but for any archaeologist looking to begin an experimental research project.
