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Author : B. A. Bradley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Experimental Lithic Technology with Special Reference to the Middle Paleolithic written by B. A. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780306480676
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Lithic Analysis written by George H. Odell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107006988
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East written by John J. Shea and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Author : Daniel S. Amick
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Experiments in Lithic Technology written by Daniel S. Amick and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Kuhn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864038
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mousterian Lithic Technology written by Steven L. Kuhn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings depend more on technology than any other animal--the use of tools and weapons is vital to the survival of our species. What processes of biocultural evolution led to this unique dependence? Steven Kuhn turns to the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) and to artifacts associated with Neanderthals, the most recent human predecessors. His study examines the ecological, economic, and strategic factors that shaped the behavior of Mousterian tool makers, revealing how these hominids brought technological knowledge to bear on the basic problems of survival. Kuhn's main database consists of assemblages of stone artifacts from four caves and a series of open-air localities situated on the western coast of the Italian peninsula. Variations in the ways stone tools were produced, maintained, and discarded demonstrate how Mousterian hominids coped with the problems of keeping mobile groups supplied with the artifacts and raw materials they used on a daily basis. Changes through time in lithic technology were closely tied to shifting strategies for hunting and collecting food. Some of the most provocative findings of this study stem from observations about the behavioral flexibility of Mousterian populations and the role of planning in foraging and technology. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Lisa Schunk
Publisher : Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum
ISBN 13 : 9783884673508
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Understanding Middle Palaeolithic Asymmetric Stone Tool Design and Use written by Lisa Schunk and published by Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Late Middle Palaeolithic, the variability of Neanderthals' lithic technologies in Central and Eastern Europe was complemented by a specific asymmetric tool type - the so called Keilmesser. Due to their morphological characteristics and interpretation as tools in purported long-term use, Keilmesser provide a unique archive for tracing late Neanderthal behavioural features. These may range from understanding tool design, production and dedication, to tool function, use and maintenance; along with aspects of technical innovations and transmission of skills and knowledge.
Author : William Andrefsky (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521578158
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Lithics written by William Andrefsky (Jr.) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis, with detailed examples of how to measure, record and analyse stone tools and stone tool production debris. Logically ordered, clearly written and well illustrated, it is designed for students and professional archaeologists. The first section provides the necessary background information, introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, and the classification of stone artifacts, basic terminology and concepts. It goes on to discuss various methods and techniques of analysis. The final section presents detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the world, illustrating the actual application of the techniques and methods discussed earlier.
Author : Earl Herbert Swanson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111390373
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Lithic technology written by Earl Herbert Swanson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Éric Boëda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000859673
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Techno-logic & Technology written by Éric Boëda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techno-logic & Technology is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for studying 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 Éric Boëda's authoritative work Techno-logique and Technologie, which draws on the latter's career of research on stone tool assemblages from archaeological sites in Europe, the Middle East, China, and South America, together with a theoretical apparatus influenced by the work of Gilbert Simondon. This book presents a major challenge to all archaeologists studying ancient technology to reconsider how they 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.
Author : Nathan Goodale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194426
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory written by Nathan Goodale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lithic Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erella Hovers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387246614
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Transitions Before the Transition written by Erella Hovers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern human origins and the fate of the Neanderthals are arguably the most compelling and contentious arenas in paleoanthropology. The much-discussed split between advocates of a single, early emergence of anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and supporters of various regional continuity positions is only part of the picture. Equally if not more important are questions surrounding the origins of modern behavior, and the relationships between anatomical and behavioral changes that occurred during the past 200,000 years. Although modern humans as a species may be defined in terms of their skeletal anatomy, it is their behavior, and the social and cognitive structures that support that behavior, which most clearly distinguish Homo sapiens from earlier forms of humans. This book assembles researchers working in Eurasia and Africa to discuss the archaeological record of the Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age. This is a time period when Homo sapiens last shared the world with other species, and during which patterns of behavior characteristic of modern humans developed and coalesced. Contributions to this volume query and challenge some current notions about the tempo and mode of cultural evolution, and about the processes that underlie the emergence of modern behavior. The papers focus on several fundamental questions. Do typical elements of "modern human behavior" appear suddenly, or are there earlier archaeological precursors of them? Are the archaeological records of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age unchanging and monotonous, or are there detectable evolutionary trends within these periods? Coming to diverse conclusions, the papers in this volume open up new avenues to thinking about this crucial interval in human evolutionary history.
Author : Harold L. Dibble
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9780924171383
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France) written by Harold L. Dibble and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 1995-01-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the new excavations at Combe-Capelle Bas, a Middle Paleolithic site in southern France. The site is situated directly on a source of good quality flint, and recent theories suggest that such a setting may have certain predictable effects on the lithic industries. These effects, and others relating to current models of raw material procurement and use, are discussed. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Paleolithic archaeology, lithic analysis, raw material use, and site formation and taphonomy. University Museum Monograph, 91
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ISBN 13 : 9789027976796
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Book Rating : 4.9/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Lithic Technology: Experimental analysis of toolmaking written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre M. Desrosiers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461420024
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making written by Pierre M. Desrosiers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human development is a long and steady process that began with stone tool making. Because of this skill, humans were able to adapt to climate changes, discover new territories, and invent new technologies. "Pressure knapping" is the common term for one method of creating stone tools, where a larger device or blade specifically made for this purpose is use to press out the stone tool. Pressure knapping was invented in different locations and at different points in time, representing the adoption of the Neolithic way of life in the Old world. Recent research on pressure knapping has led for the first time to a global thesis on this technique. The contributors to this seminal work combine research findings on pressure knapping from different cultures around the globe to develope a cohesive theory. This contributions to this volume represents a significant development to research on pressure knapping, as well as the field of lithic studies in general. This work will be an important reference for anyone studying the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods, lithic studies, technologies, and more generally, cultural transmission.
Author : Wm Jack Hranicky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481751743
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Archaeological Concepts, Techniques, and Terminology for American Prehistoric Lithic Technology written by Wm Jack Hranicky and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological Concepts, Techniques, and Terminology for American Prehistory Lithic Technology by Wm Jack Hranicky is a 600-page comprehensive publication that encompasses the study of American prehistoric stone tools and implements. It is a look-up volume for studying the material culture of prehistoric people and using its concepts and methods for researching this aspect of archaeology. There are over 3000 entries which are defined and illustrated. It also has an extensive set of references and an overview for the study of stone tools.
Author : Erella Hovers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198043414
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave written by Erella Hovers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple burials of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHs). The record from this region raises the question of possible long-term temporal overlap between early AMHs and Neanderthals. For this reason, Qafzeh has long been one of the pivotal sites in debates on the origins of AMHs and in attempts to compare and contrast the two species' adaptations and behavior. Although the hominin fossils from the site were published years ago, until now the associated archaeological assemblages were incompletely described, often leading to conflicting interpretations. This monograph includes a thorough technological analysis of the lithic assemblages, incorporated in their geological and sedimentological contexts. This description serves as a springboard for regional comparisons as well as a more general discussion about Middle Paleolithic behavior, which is relevant to important and as yet unresolved questions on the origins of "modern" behavior patterns. The volume includes a wide-ranging and up-to-date bibliography that provides the middle-range for discussing the ecological context and behavioral complexity of the Middle Paleolithic period, and ends with some thought-provoking conclusions about the dynamic human interactions that existed in the region during this time.
