Lithic raw material exploitation and circulation in prehistory
Subtitle: a comparative perspective in diverse palaeoenvironments
By: Masayoshi Yamada & Akira Ono ; preface, Marcel Otte
Series: ERAUL -- 138; Etudes et recherches archéologiques de l'Université de Liège -- no 138.
Publisher: Université de Liège, Service de préhistoire & Centre de recherches archéologiques
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Liège, Belgium
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9782930495248
Subjects: Stone implements; Congresses; Cross-cultural studies; Obsidian; Prehistoric Commerce
Other titles: Comparative perspective in diverse palaeoenvironments
Notes: Papers originally presented at an international symposium held at Meiji University in Tokyo, October 27-28, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Summaries in English and French ; some prefatory matter also in French.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Marcel Otte; title: Forward  -- Masayoshi Yamada; title: Introduction  -- Akira Ono -- Part I.; title: General perspectives: -- 1.1.; title: Rivers as orientation axes for migrations, exchange networks and transmission of cultural traditions in the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe  -- Harald Floss -- 1.2.; title: The Contribution of obsidian characterization studies to early prehistoric archaeology  -- Tristan Carter -- 1.3.; title: The Mesolithic project Ullafelsen in Tyrol (Austria)  -- Dieter Schäfer -- 1.4.; title: Carpathian obsidians: state of art  -- Katalin T. Biró -- 1.5.; title: Paleolithic of Ukraine : the main diachronic and spatial trends of lithic raw materials exploitation  -- Vadim Stepanchuk -- Part II.; title: Regional perspectives: -- 2.1.; title: The raw material variability in the Mesolithic site of Ullafelsen (Sellrain, Tyrol, Austria)  -- Stefano Bertola -- 2.2.; title: Petroarchaeological research in the Carpathian Basin : methods, results, challenges  -- Katalin T. Biró -- 2.3.; title: Obsidian outcrops in Ukrainian Transcarpathians and their use during the Paleolithic time  -- Sergey Ryzov -- 2.4.; title: Small opportunities and big needs : Mira Early Upper Paleolithic case of raw materials exploitation (Dnieper Basin, Ukraine)  -- Vadim Stepanchuk -- 2.5.; title: Obsidian exploitation and circulation in Late Pleistocene Hokkaido in the northern part of the Japanese Archipelago  -- Hiroyuki Sato & Miyuki Yakushige -- 2.6.; title: Upper Palaeolithic obsidian use in Central Japan : the origin of obsidian source exploitation  -- Kazutaka Shimada -- 2.7.; title: Acquisition and consumption of obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic on Kyushu, Japan -- Kojiro Shiba.