[PDF] Lithics After The Stone Age eBook

Author : Steven A. Rosen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761991243

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Not everyone bought into the Bronze Age right away, and Rosen describes and classifies the stone tools that continued to be made and used in the Middle East for the next two thousand years. He considers subtypes, function, distribution, chronology, the organization of production, styles, the relationship between lithic and metal technology, and other aspects. Over 100 drawings and maps provide archaeologists with a guide to identifying finds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : P. Nick Kardulias
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739105368

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Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis demonstrates the vitality of contemporary lithics analysis by examining material from a variety of geographical locations. This edited collection is primarily concerned with the link between craft production and social complexity, the nature of trade, and the delineation of settlement patterns and manipulation of landscape. While deconstructing the present to reconstruct the past, each chapter incorporates a technological dimension shaped by the type of analysis utilized. Methods include microwear analysis, which adds significant understanding of stone tool function, to the identification of obsidian sources, which illustrates the potential of lithic provenance studies for reconstructing trade. This book verifies and expands on the notion that lithics play an integral role in our understanding of past societies at all levels of complexity, from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to archaic states.

Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107006988

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This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.

Author : Torben Bjarke Ballin
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789698707

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This volume offers a system for the hierarchical classification of British lithic artefacts from the Late Glacial and Holocene periods, and it is hoped that it may find use as a guide book for, for example, archaeology students, museum staff, non-specialist archaeologists, local archaeology groups and lay enthusiasts.

Author : Anders Högberg
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :

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This volume examines the large flint knife blade asking why these artefacts were so common in the late Bronze Age of southern Scandinavia, a time which is supposed to be characterised by the transition from bronze to iron technology.

Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1489901736

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Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory. This volume redresses that balance. In Stone Tools, renowned lithic analysts employ explicitly theoretical constructs to explore the archaeological record and use the lithic database to establish its points. Chapters discuss curation, design theory, replacement of stone with metal, piece refitting, and projectile point style.

Author : Brian Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444311969

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Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene occupations in North American and Australia. The Early Paleolithic in India and the Near East, the Middle Paleolithic in Europe, and the Late Paleolithic in Europe and eastern Asia are also considered. The authors include established researchers who provide important synthetic statements updated with new information. Recent data are reported, often by younger scholars who are becoming respected members of the international research community. The authors represent research traditions from nine countries and therefore provide insight into the scholarly present as well as the Paleolithic past. Attempts are frequently made to relate lithic procurement and utilization to the organization of societies and even broader concerns of hominin behaviour. The volume re-evaluates existing interpretations in some instances by updating previous work of the authors and offers provocative new interpretations that at times call into question some basic assumptions of the Paleolithic. This book will be invaluable reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and anthropology.

Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108424430

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A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.

Author : Nathan Goodale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316194426

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Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, risk management, macroevolution, dual inheritance theory, cladistics, central place foraging, costly signaling, selection, drift, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.