Lithic technology

making and using stone tools
Nachdruck 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-102809-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 665 g

Reihe: World Anthropology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swanson, Earl Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I-X -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Lithic Technology and Taxonomy -- Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and Discussion -- Lithic Technology as a Means of Processual Inference -- Idiosyncratic Behavior in Chipping Style: Some Hypotheses and Preliminary Analysis -- Graph Theoretic Analysis of Lithic Tools from Northern Chile -- "Punch Technique" and Upper Paleolithic Blades -- Plates -- PART TWO: Experimental Analysis of Toolmaking -- Comments on Lithic Technology and Experimental Archaeology -- The Experimental Study of Bipolar Flakes -- Remarks on Fragments with Languette Fractures -- Fractures for the Archaeologist -- PART THREE: Application of Analysis to Archaeology -- The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts -- McKean and Little Lake Technology: A Problem in Projectile Point Typology in the Great Basin of North America -- Toolmaking and Tool Use Among the Preceramic Peoples of Panama -- A Study of Cuts, Grooves, and Other Marks on Recent and Fossil Bone: II Weathering Cracks, Fractures, Splinters, and Other Similar Natural Phenomena -- PART FOUR: Discussion -- COMMENTS -- REPLIES -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects