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Book Synopsis Lithic Raw Material Exploitation and Circulation in Prehistory by : Masayoshi Yamada
Download or read book Lithic Raw Material Exploitation and Circulation in Prehistory written by Masayoshi Yamada and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface, Marcel Otte0Forward, Masayoshi Yamada0Introduction, Akira Ono0Part I – General perspectives01.1 – Rivers as orientation axes for migrations, exchange networks and transmission of cultural traditions in the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe, Harald Floss01.2 – The Contribution of obsidian characterization studies to early prehistoric archaeology, Tristan Carter01.3 – The mesolithic project Ullafelsen in Tyrol (Austria), Dieter Schäfer01.4 – Carpathian obsidians: state of art, Katalin T. Biró01.5 – Paleolithic of Ukraine: The main diachronic and spatial trends of lithic raw materials exploitation, Vadim Stepanchuk0Part II – Regional perspectives02.1 – The raw material variability in the mesolithic site of Ullafelsen (Sellrain, Tyrol, Austria), Stefano Bertola02.2 – Petroarchaeological research in the Carpathian Basin: methods, results, challenges, Katalin T. Biró02.3 – Obsidian outcrops in Ukrainian transcarpathians and their use during the Paleolithic time, Sergey Ryzov02.4 – Small opportunities and big needs: Mira Early Upper Paleolithic case of raw materials exploitation (Dnieper basin, Ukraine), Vadim Stepanchuk02.5 – Obsidian exploitation and circulation in Late Pleistocene Hokkaido in the northern part of the Japanese Archipelago, Hiroyuki Sato & Miyuki Yakushige02.6 – Upper Palaeolithic obsidian use in Central Japan: the origin of obsidian source exploitation, Kazutaka Shimada02.7 – Acquisition and consumption of obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic on Kyushu, Japan, Kojiro Shiba.
Book Synopsis The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory by : Xavier Terradas Batlle
Download or read book The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory written by Xavier Terradas Batlle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are studying.
Book Synopsis Lithic Raw Material Variability and the Reduction of Short-term-use Implements by : Harry Joseph Lerner
Download or read book Lithic Raw Material Variability and the Reduction of Short-term-use Implements written by Harry Joseph Lerner and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chipped stone tools are a truly dynamic medium of material culture. From initial reduction to contemporary excavation, lithic artifacts undergo continuous change. The role of the properties of raw materials in determining rates of use-wear accrual is poorly understood and has rarely been assessed quantitatively. This study offers such quantification regarding four materials exploited for the production of short-term use implements at the Late Archaic FA2-13 site located just outside the city of Farmington, New Mexico. Both experimental and archaeological use-wear evidence was assessed in separate but related ways. Digital image analysis of use-wear invasiveness using ClemexVision PE and GIS analysis of use-wear homogeneity using Idrisi Kilimanjaro yielded distinct but highly complementary results. Direct testing of material properties of non-archaeological samples using a Hysitron Triboindenter served to further clarify these findings in terms of the complex relationship between raw material surfacehardness and roughness. The results of the present study show that there are significant differences between rates of wear accrual among the four materials. Analysis of tools from FA2-13 indicates that while scraping activities likely did predominate, it may also be feasible to generate more detailed assessments regarding the kinds of scraping activities that were undertaken and the respective intensities with which they were performed. This increased insight can then be extrapolated for application to long-term use technologies and their more complex life histories.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production by : Jonathon E. Ericson
Download or read book Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production written by Jonathon E. Ericson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Siliceous Rocks and Prehistory by : Christophe Delage
Download or read book Siliceous Rocks and Prehistory written by Christophe Delage and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The published evidence on lithic raw material procurement in prehistoric times that has been gathered since the nineteenth century is presented in many languages, and is available in both local and international journals. Nowadays, it appears quite overwhelming, almost impossible, to grasp the full extent of research regarding this topic. Publications on methodological grounds or on the synthesis of specific geographical areas have inevitably provided limited scope for reflection and discussion. This volume offers a reference that can provide the 'raw material' for scholars interested in furthering their understanding of prehistoric economic strategies of lithic procurement and exploitation. It is the result of several years collecting bibliographical references. Publications ranging from a simple mention of a few raw materials present at a specific site to detailed studies of lithic sourcing and procurement strategies or the geo-archaeological assessment of chert available in a particular region, have been taken into consideration.
Book Synopsis Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe by : Lynn E. Fisher
Download or read book Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe written by Lynn E. Fisher and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lithic assemblages have always been an important source of information, sometimes the only source, on human activities in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe. These twelve papers, some of which were given at the 59th Annual SAA meeting in Arnheim in 1994 (here revised) present comparative lithic material from across Europe.
Book Synopsis Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers by : Anta Montet-White
Download or read book Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers written by Anta Montet-White and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lithic Raw Material Utilization and Social Interaction in the Late Prehistory of the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley by : Daniel Barton Goatley
Download or read book Lithic Raw Material Utilization and Social Interaction in the Late Prehistory of the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley written by Daniel Barton Goatley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond by : Adnan Baysal
Download or read book Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond written by Adnan Baysal and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.
Book Synopsis The Exploitation of Lithic Resources in Neolithic Southeast Europe by : Barbara Ann Voytek
Download or read book The Exploitation of Lithic Resources in Neolithic Southeast Europe written by Barbara Ann Voytek and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant by : Aviad Agam
Download or read book Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant written by Aviad Agam and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines patterns of flint procurement and exploitation at the Acheulo-Yabrudian site Qesem Cave, Israel. The results show how flint had a major impact on early human decision-making and social and cultural lifeways during the Late Lower Paleolithic of the Levant.
Book Synopsis Heat Treatment of Lithic Raw Materials by : Mary Beth Dowd Trubitt
Download or read book Heat Treatment of Lithic Raw Materials written by Mary Beth Dowd Trubitt and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lithic technology consists of a set of techniques for shaping and working stone, and a knowledge of the properties and characteristics of the materials utilized. Lithic technology is the foundation of non-metallurgical cultures; stone is directly used in making many types of stone tools as well as indirectly in fashioning tools from other substances. Lithic technology is an important aspect for the archaeologist to study, if only for the practical consideration that on most prehistoric sites, stone tools and debitage are the only material culture preserved. Reconstruction of the lithic system aids not only in the technological interpretation of a prehistoric society. As technology is interconnected with other aspects of culture, it can be used to infer spatial patterning of activities, connections between groups through the study of long distance trade in lithic raw materials, and aspects of social organization. This paper is concerned with one facet of lithic technology. Because a knowledge of the working properties of lithic raw materials is prerequisite to the effective manufacture and use of stone tools, changes in the characteristics of the stone will cause concurrent changes in the rest of the technology. Heat treatment is the intentional alteration of properties of stone through controlled heating and cooling. These physical changes are exploited by selectively heating raw materials to allow the more efficient manufacture and subsequent use of tools. Heat treatment can be used to change a poor quality stone into a more workable material. In particular, heating increases the ease and control of knapping. Soft percussion and pressure flaking techniques may be used on a stone which would be difficult to flake in the natural state. Controlled knapping of heat altered material produces larger forms, in general, than knapping of similar forms of untreated material. Heated material may be flaked to a thinner tool edge, and the resultant tool may therefore be more efficient for cutting tasks. Heat treatment of lithic raw materials thus redefines the local resources deemed usable by the flintknapper, and increases the control and sophistication of the technology.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Ukraine by : Malcolm C. Lillie
Download or read book Prehistoric Ukraine written by Malcolm C. Lillie and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the Prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through until the Neolithic Period undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. At present there are no other English language books on this subject that provide a current synthesis for these periods. The chapters in this volume provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied. The book includes the most recent research from all areas of prehistory up to the Neolithic period, and, in addition, areas such as recent radiocarbon dating and its implications for culture chronology are considered; as is a consideration of aDNA and the new insights into culture history this area of research affords; alongside recent macrofossil studies of plant use, and anthropological and stable isotope studies of diet, which all combine to allow greater insights into the nature of human subsistence and cultural developments across the Palaeolithic to Neolithic periods in Ukraine. It is anticipated that this book will be an invaluable resource for students of prehistory throughout Europe in providing an English-language text that is written by researchers who are active in their respective fields and who possess an intimate knowledge of Ukrainian prehistory.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Technological Organization in the Upper South Skunk River Valley by : Benjamin John Hoksbergen
Download or read book Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Technological Organization in the Upper South Skunk River Valley written by Benjamin John Hoksbergen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of lithic assemblages from 12 prehistoric sites in the upper South Skunk River valley with components ranging from Late Paleoindian through Late Woodland indicates that prehistoric people in the area exploited a wide variety of local and exotic raw materials and organized their lithic reduction technologies in more complex ways than previous models have suggested. With only a few exceptions, all lithic raw material types, regardless of particular physical properties and quality, seem to have been utilized in very similar ways. In general, amorphous core reduction was implemented with reduced frequency as distance from the raw material sources increased. Amorphous cores, however, seem to have been transported over considerable distances, obscuring the role mobility may have played in prehistoric organization of lithic technology.
Book Synopsis Lithics by : William Andrefsky (Jr.)
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.
Book Synopsis Aurignacian Lithic Economy by : Brooke S. Blades
Download or read book Aurignacian Lithic Economy written by Brooke S. Blades and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing data from a classic region for Paleolithic research in Europe, this book explores how early modern humans obtained lithic raw materials and analyzes the different utilization patterns for locally available materials compared with those from a greater distance. The author locates these patterns within an ecological context and argues that early modern humans selected specific mobility strategies to accommodate changes in subsistence environments.
Book Synopsis Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology by : João Cascalheira
Download or read book Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology written by João Cascalheira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book aims to provide a new perspective on the identification and interpretation of short-term occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology. The volume includes contributions with a particular focus on the definition and identification of short-term occupations in Paleolithic contexts, aiming to improve our current knowledge on the topic, both methodologically and interpretatively. The set of chapters coming from a broad spectrum of geographies and chronologies will contribute to the debate on the definition of short-term occupations but also to a better understanding on how past hunter-gatherers communities adapted and moved in different environmental contexts across time. The in-depth examinations of short-term occupations in different chronologies and environments will shed light on an aspect of the behavioral trajectories of the human species in the management of the territory.
