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Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 14,52 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 : Brian Patrick Kooyman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 38,46 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 : Lawrence H. Keeley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 1980-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226428893
A major problem confronting archeologists is how to determine the function of ancient stone tools. In this important work, Lawrence H. Keeley reports on his own highly successful course of research into the uses of British Paleolithic flint implements. His principal method of investigation, known as "microwear analysis," was the microscopic examination of traces of use left on flint implements in the form of polishes, striations, and breakage patterns. The most important discovery arising from Keeley's research was that, at magnifications of 100x to 400x, there was a high correlation between the detailed appearance of microwear polishes formed on tool edges and the general category of material worked by that edge. For example, different and distinctive types of microwear polish were formed during use on wood, bone, hide, meat, and soft plant material. These correlations between microwear polish and worked material were independent of the method of use (cutting, sawing, scraping, and so on). In combining evidence of polish type with other traces of use, Keeley was able to make precise reconstructions of tool functions. This book includes the results of a "blind test" of Keeley's functional interpretations which revealed remarkable agreement between the actual and inferred use of the tools tested. Keeley applied his method of microwear analysis to artifacts from three excavation sites in Britain—Clacton-on-the-sea, Swanscombe, and Hoxne. His research suggests new hypotheses concerning such Paleolithic problems as inter-assemblage variability, the function of Acheulean hand axes, sidescrapers, and chopper-cores and points the way to future research in Stone Age studies.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 21,5 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 : 28,34 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 : Mark G. Plew
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1985
Category : House & Home
ISBN :
Author : P. Nick Kardulias
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739105368
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 : Antonella Pedergnana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 27,69 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 : Patrick C. Vaughan
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"This important new methodologically-oriented work represents a major step forward in the expanding field of traceological studies. . . . The text is exceptionally well written and documented. Schematic artifacts line drawings . . . clearly indicate different use zones on edges and are preceded by a coded use-type key. The 280 x photomicrographs in section III are exceptional as is also the presentation of qualitative and quantitative data."--American Antiquity "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 : Jenny L. Adams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607812739
An updated edition of the essential reference for the study of ground stone artifacts