Book Description
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 : Brian Patrick Kooyman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 23,20 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 : 34,74 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 : Kathryn Weedman Arthur
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816537135
"This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John C. Whittaker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292792557
Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them. Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker starts at the beginner level and progresses to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-by-step instructions for making several basic stone tool types. Numerous diagrams allow the reader to visualize the flintknapping process, and drawings of many stone tools illustrate the discussions and serve as models for beginning knappers. Written for a wide amateur and professional audience, Flintknapping will be essential for practicing knappers as well as for teachers of the history of technology, experimental archaeology, and stone tool analysis.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108424430
A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,6 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 : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1996-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306451980
Lithic analysts have been criticised for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to the development of archaeological theory. Stone Tools' addresses this issue by presenting contributions that employ explicitly theoretical constructs to interpret the archaeological record.
Author : Jonathon E. Ericson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1984-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521256223
This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries. In the past archaeologists have placed much emphasis on the process of 'exchange' in their analysis of prehistoric economies while largely ignoring the sources of the exchanged objects. However, with the development of interest in the means of production, these sites have begun to take on a new significance. Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.
Author : Shannon Croft
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781407358024
This monograph reviews over 40 techniques and provides a guide to the methodological approaches used in archaeological lithic residue analysis.
Author : Eric Boëda
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9781003359081
"Techno-logic & Technology is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for the study of the development of stone tool technology, with the goal of integrating humanity's earliest and longest lasting technology into a comprehensive questioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. Michael Chazan provides a translation of Eric Boëda's authoritative work Techno-logique and Technologie, that draws on his career of research on stone tool assemblages from archaeological sites in Europe, the Middle East, and China together with a theoretical apparatus influenced by the work of Gilbert Simondon. This book presents a major challenge to all archaeologists who study ancient technology to reconsider how we think about artifacts and how to approach the question of progress through time in human technology. Lithic analysis is a highly empirical field of study that rarely has an impact on issues of broad theoretical interest and Boëda's book is a welcome exception. As well as providing contextualising information within the text, the translator Michael Chazan, himself a Paleolithic archaeologist specializing in stone tool technology, includes an interview with the author to help equip the reader to engage with this challenging text. Chiming with the growth of interest in the work of Gilbert Simondon in the English-speaking world, this book is an important resource for Palaeolithic archaeologists and lithic specialists. It will also be of interest to researchers in material culture studies, technology studies and human evolution"--