The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory

The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory
Author: Xavier Terradas Batlle
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527505235

This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are studying.

Lithic Raw Material Exploitation and Circulation in Prehistory

Lithic Raw Material Exploitation and Circulation in Prehistory
Author: Masayoshi Yamada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014
Genre: Commerce, Prehistoric
ISBN: 9782930495248

Preface, Marcel Otte0Forward, Masayoshi Yamada0Introduction, Akira Ono0Part I – General perspectives01.1 – Rivers as orientation axes for migrations, exchange networks and transmission of cultural traditions in the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe, Harald Floss01.2 – The Contribution of obsidian characterization studies to early prehistoric archaeology, Tristan Carter01.3 – The mesolithic project Ullafelsen in Tyrol (Austria), Dieter Schäfer01.4 – Carpathian obsidians: state of art, Katalin T. Biró01.5 – Paleolithic of Ukraine: The main diachronic and spatial trends of lithic raw materials exploitation, Vadim Stepanchuk0Part II – Regional perspectives02.1 – The raw material variability in the mesolithic site of Ullafelsen (Sellrain, Tyrol, Austria), Stefano Bertola02.2 – Petroarchaeological research in the Carpathian Basin: methods, results, challenges, Katalin T. Biró02.3 – Obsidian outcrops in Ukrainian transcarpathians and their use during the Paleolithic time, Sergey Ryzov02.4 – Small opportunities and big needs: Mira Early Upper Paleolithic case of raw materials exploitation (Dnieper basin, Ukraine), Vadim Stepanchuk02.5 – Obsidian exploitation and circulation in Late Pleistocene Hokkaido in the northern part of the Japanese Archipelago, Hiroyuki Sato & Miyuki Yakushige02.6 – Upper Palaeolithic obsidian use in Central Japan: the origin of obsidian source exploitation, Kazutaka Shimada02.7 – Acquisition and consumption of obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic on Kyushu, Japan, Kojiro Shiba.

The missing woodland resources

The missing woodland resources
Author: Marian Berihuete-Azorín
Publisher: Barkhuis
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2022-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9493194434

Woodlands are a key source of raw materials for many purposes since early Prehistory. Wood, bark, resin, leaves, fibers, fungi, moss, or tubers have been gathered to fulfill almost every human need. That led societies to develop specific technologies to acquire, manage, transform, elaborate, use, and consume these resources. The materials provided by woodlands covered a wide range of necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, or tool production, but they also provided resources employed for waterproofing, dying, medicine, and adhesives, among many others. All these technological processes and uses are commonly difficult to identify through the archaeological record. Some materials are exclusively preserved by charring or in anaerobic conditions at very exceptional sites or leave only a very slight trace behind them (e.g., containers). Consequently, they have received far less attention in archaeobotanical studies compared to other kind of plant materials consumed as food or firewood. This book provides an overview of technological uses of plants from the Palaeolithic to the Post-Medieval period. This collection of papers presents different archaeobotanical and archaeological studies dealing with the use of a wide range of woodland resources, most of them among the less visible for archaeology, such as bast, fibers, and fungi. These papers present different approaches for their study combining archaeology, archaeobotany, and ethnoarchaeology.

Networks of trade in raw materials and technological innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory: an archaeometry approach

Networks of trade in raw materials and technological innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory: an archaeometry approach
Author: Davide Delfino
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178491424X

Specialists from various disciplines (humanities and natural sciences) debate, from different perspectives, the networks in raw materials and technological innovation in Prehistory and Protohistory, involving investigation topics typical of archaeometry: archeometallurgy, petrography, and mineralogy

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory
Author: Linda M. Hurcombe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317814541

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book demonstrates the efficacy of an holistic approach by using examples and cases studies. No other book covers such a broad range of organic materials from a social and object biography perspective, or concentrates so fully on approaches to the missing components of prehistoric material culture. This book will be an essential addition for those people wishing to understand better the nature and importance of organic materials as the ’missing majority’ of prehistoric material culture.

Personal Ornaments in Prehistory

Personal Ornaments in Prehistory
Author: Emma L. Baysal
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789252873

Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years, from hunter-gatherer life in the cave to urban elites, from expedient use of natural resources to complex technologies. Using evidence from archaeological sites across Turkey, the Near East and the Balkans, it explores the history of personal ornaments from their appearance in the Palaeolithic until the rise of urban centers in the Early Bronze Age and encompassing technologies ranging from stone cutting to early glazing, metallurgy and the roots of glass manufacture. The development of theoretical and practical approaches to ornaments and the current state of research are illustrated with a wide variety of examples. This book shows that far from being objects of display, of little value in archaeological interpretation and often overlooked, these artifacts are key to understanding trade, relationships, values, beliefs and the construction of personal identity in the past. Indeed, more than any other group of artifacts, their variety in material, form, use and distribution opens doors to both wide ranging scientific exploration and consideration of what it is to be human.

Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe

Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe
Author: Françoise Bostyn
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2023-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803272228

This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden, using the same framework to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon.

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond
Author: Adnan Baysal
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789699274

This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.