An integration of the use-wear and residue analysis for the identification of the function of archaeological stone tools
Subtitle: proceedings of the international workshop, Rome, March 5th-7th, 2012
By: edited by Cristina Lemorini, Stella Nunziante Cesaro
Series: BAR international series -- 2649; BAR international series -- 2649.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781407312880
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Stone implements; Congresses; Prehistoric Tools; Analysis
Description: The book publishes the proceedings of the workshop held in Rome in March 2012 that was intended to bring together archaeologists, scientists and students involved in the study of use-wear traces on prehistoric stone tools and/or in the identification of micro residues that might be present in them in order to hypothesize their function. Use-wear analysis carried out with microscopic analysis at low or high magnification is, at present, a settled procedure. The individuation and identification of residues is attempted using morphological and chemical techniques, these latter divided between invasive and non-invasive. Each employed technique has its own advantages and limitations. Both traces and residues analysis require a comparison to useful replicas. Even with regard to the making of replicas, no shared protocol exists. The workshop underlined the necessity to outline the basis for developing a common protocol concerning both analysis procedures and replicas realization. The adoption of consistent methods will make it possible for data obtained by multiple researchers to become interchangeable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lemorini C., Nunziante Cesaro S.; title: Improved molecular and biochemical approaches to residue analysis / Veall, M.-A., Matheson, C.D.; title: What method to study hafting? The potential of use-wear and residue analysis confronted / Rots V.; title: Use-wear and residues analyses on quartzite stone tools: setting up a methodology / Pedergnana A., Ollé A.; title: The function of prehistoric lithic tools: a combined study of use-wear analysis and FTIR microspectroscopy. Results and open problems / Lemorini C., Nunziante Cesaro S., Celant A., Nucara A., Maselli P., Skakun N., Gopher A., Shahal A.; title: Usewear on the platform: 'use-flakes' and 'retouch-flakes' from northern Australia and Timor / Hayes E.H., Fullagar R.L.K., Clarkson C.J., O'Connor S.; title: The use of microliths in the eastern Alpine region between the late mesolithic and early neolithic. Use-wear and residue analysis of trapezes from Riparo Gaban / Cristiani E., Pedrotti A., Gialanella S.; title: Complex research of net sinkers from the mesolithic settlement Ivanovskoye 7, central Russia / Skakun N., Mikhail Z., Terekhina V.