Lithic Analysis
Download Lithic Analysis full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Lithic Analysis ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : George H. Odell |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1441990097 |
This practical volume does not intend to replace a mentor, but acts as a readily accessible guide to the basic tools of lithic analysis. The book was awarded the 2005 SAA Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. Some focuses of the manual include: history of stone tool research; procurement, manufacture and function; assemblage variability. It is an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the prehistoric period.
| Author | : William Andrefsky, Jr |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2005-12-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521615006 |
This fully updated and revised edition of William Andrefsky Jr's ground-breaking manual on lithic analysis is designed for students and professional archaeologists. It explains the fundamental principles of the measurement, recording and analysis of stone tools and stone tool production debris. Introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, classification, terminology and key concepts, the volume comprehensively explores methods and techniques, presenting detailed case studies of lithic analysis from around the world. It also examines new emerging techniques and includes a new section on stone tool functional studies.
| Author | : P. Nick Kardulias |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780739105368 |
Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis demonstrates the vitality of contemporary lithics analysis by examining material from a variety of geographical locations. This edited collection is primarily concerned with the link between craft production and social complexity, the nature of trade, and the delineation of settlement patterns and manipulation of landscape. While deconstructing the present to reconstruct the past, each chapter incorporates a technological dimension shaped by the type of analysis utilized. Methods include microwear analysis, which adds significant understanding of stone tool function, to the identification of obsidian sources, which illustrates the potential of lithic provenance studies for reconstructing trade. This book verifies and expands on the notion that lithics play an integral role in our understanding of past societies at all levels of complexity, from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to archaic states.
| Author | : Philip J. Carr |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2012-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0817356991 |
Representing work by a mixture of veterans and a new generation of lithic analysts, Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast explores fresh ideas while reworking and pushing the limits of traditional methods and hypotheses. The variability in the southeastern lithic landscape over space and through time makes it a dynamic and challenging region for archaeologists. Demonstrating a holistic approach and using a variety of methods, this volume aims to derive information regarding prehistoric lifeways from lithic assemblages. The contributors use data from a wide temporal span and a variety of sites across the Southeast, ranging from Texas to South Carolina and from Florida to Kentucky. Not merely cautionary tales, these case studies demonstrate the necessity of looking beyond the bag of lithic material sitting in the laboratory to address the key questions in the organization of prehistoric lithic technologies. How do field-collection strategies bias our interpretations? What is therelationship between technological strategies and tool design? How can inferences regarding social and economic strategies be made from lithic assemblages? Contributors William Andrefsky Jr. / Andrew P. Bradbury / Philip J. Carr / CarolynConklin / D. Randall Cooper / Jason L.Edmonds / Jay D. Franklin / Albert C.Goodyear III / Joel Hardison / Lucinda M. Langston / D. Shane Miller / George H.Odell / Charlotte D. Pevny / Tara L. Potts /Sarah E. Price / Douglas Sain / Sarah C.Sherwood / Ashley M. Smallwood /Paul Thacker
| Author | : Shannon Croft |
| Publisher | : British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2021-04-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781407358024 |
This monograph reviews over 40 techniques and provides a guide to the methodological approaches used in archaeological lithic residue analysis.
| Author | : John J. Shea |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 427 |
| Release | : 2013-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107006988 |
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
| Author | : Brian Patrick Kooyman |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780826323330 |
Covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis.
| Author | : Nathan Goodale |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2015-01-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1316194426 |
Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, risk management, macroevolution, dual inheritance theory, cladistics, central place foraging, costly signaling, selection, drift, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.
| Author | : William Andrefsky (Jr.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Debitage, the by-product flakes and chips from stone tool production, is the most abundant artifact type found on prehistoric sites. Archaeologists now recognise its potential in providing information about the kinds of tools produced, the characteristics of the technology that produced them, human mobility patterns and even site function, applying scientific analyses to its study. This volume brings together some of the most recent research on debitage analysis and intepretation, including replication experiments, and offers methodologies for interpreting variability in assemblages at the micro and macro level.
| Author | : Norah Moloney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2016-09-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315425319 |
The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively, they increase our understanding of issues such as tool function, means of production, raw material sourcing and exchange systems, and the evolution of human cognition, social organization and symbolic behavior.
