Bones as tools
Subtitle: current methods and interpretations in worked bone studies
By: edited by Christian Gates St-Pierre, Renee B. Walker.
Contributors: Gates St. Pierre, Christian.; Walker, Renee Beauchamp, 1968-; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 1622
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781407300344
Subjects: Bone implements, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Bone implements -- Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "...originally collected for a symposium entitled "Recent developments in bone tool studies," organized for the 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Montreal (Canada) on April 2nd, 2004"--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Christian Gates St-Pierre and Renee B. Walker; value: Bone tools and bone technology: a brief history / Genevieve M. LeMoine; value: The importance of the palaeontological and taphonomical analyses for the study of bone industries / Carole Vercoutère, Marylène Patou-Mathis and Giacomo Giacobini; value: Technology on bone and antler industries: a relevant methodology for characterizing early post-glacial societies (9th - 8th millennium BC) / Eva David; value: Prehistoric bone tools and the archaeozoological perspective: research in central Europe / Alice M. Choyke and Jörg Schibler; value: Methods, means, and results when studying European bone industries / Alexandra Legrand and Isabelle Sidéra; value: The use of bone and antler tools: two examples from the late Mesolithic in the Dutch coastal zone / Annelou van Gijn; value: Stability and change in bone tool use along the middle Missouri, North Dakota / Janet Griffitts; value: Bone awls of the St.Lawrence Iroquoians: a microwear analysis / Christian Gates St-Pierre; value: A diachronic study of pre- and post-contact antler, bone and shell artifacts from New York State / Renee B. Walker; value: Bone disc manufacturing debris from Newfoundland to Antigua during the historic period / Walter E. Klippel and Bonnie E. Price; value: Bone tool types and microwear patterns: some examples from the Pampa Region, South America / Natacha Buc and Daniel Loponte; value: A priliminary typology of perpendicularly hafted bone tipped tattooing instruments: toward a technological history of Oceanic tattooing / Benoît Robitaille; value: Bone artifacts and their importance to archaeology / Sandra L. Olsen.