Works in stone
Subtitle: contemporary perspectives on lithic analysis
By: edited by Michael J. Shott
Publisher: The University of Utah Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781607813828; 9781607813835
Subjects: Stone implements; Analysis; Prehistoric Tools; Projectile points
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Works in stone: contemporary perspectives on lithic analysis / Michael J. Shott; title: The problems with flake types and the case for attribute analysis of debitage assemblages / Jim A. Railey and Eric J. Gonzales; title: Timescales and variability in hominin technological strategies in the Jordan Rift Valley: what difference does 1.3 million years make? / John J. Shea; title: Flake selection, assemblage variability, and technological organization / Simon Holdaway, Matthew Douglass, and Rebecca Phillipps; title: Comparing forager and pastoralist technological organization in the Central Namib Desert, Western Namibia / Grant S. McCall and Rachel A. Horowitz; title: Hafted woodworking tools from an upper paleolithic site in Northern China: prehensile wear experiments and archaeological implications / Chen Shen, Xiaoling Zhang, Jingfang Zhao, Yanhua Song, Hong Chen, and Xing Gao; title: Toward a more behavioral approach: the contribution of wear studies / Veerle Rots; title: Function and value in sickle segment analysis: odellian perspectives / Steven A. Rosen, Aaron Shugar, and Jacob Vardi; title: "There is the tool and the way of using it": quina scrapers and their retouches / Sylvie Beyries and Philippe Walter; title: Dynamic variables and the use-related reduction of Huron projectile points / Harry J. Lerner; title: Artifactual and environment-related variations in Fuego-Patagonia (Argentina): assessing the role of different factors / Marcelo Cardillo, Judith Charlin, and Karen Borrazzo; title: The evolution of old cordilleran core technology / Anna M. Prentiss, James C. Chatters, Randall R. Skelton, and Matthew Walsh; title: Squeezing life from stones: the human side of replication experiments / John E. Clark and James C. Woods.