Flexible stones : ground stone tools from Franchthi Cave /

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Author / Creator:	Stroulia, Anna, 1966-
Imprint:	Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece ; fasc. 14 Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece ; fasc. 14.
Subject:	Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece. Stone implements -- Greece. Tools, Prehistoric -- Greece. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Stone implements. Tools, Prehistoric. Franchthi Cave (Greece) Greece -- Antiquities. Greece. Greece -- Franchthi Cave. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101232

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ISBN:	9780253001429 0253001420 9780253221780 0253221781
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. Flexible Stones provides a detailed analysis of the material discovered during the excavations at Franchthi Cave, Peloponnese, Greece. Approximately 500 tools, the raw material used for their manufacture, as well as the byproducts of such manufacture were found. Most of this collection co.
Other form:	Print version: Stroulia, Anna, 1966- Flexible stones. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Introduction to the site and assemblage ; Classification ; Describing the material ; Why not a ground stone tool stratigraphy? ; Tool names ; Structure of the study ; Abbreviations used in the text
The pre-neolithic material. introduction ; The Palaeolithic period ; The Mesolithic period ; Possible Pre-Neolithic specimens
The Neolithic material (1). Introduction to the Neolithic period ; Passive tools ; Introduction ; Passive open tools (Popen) ; Passive tools with cavity (Pcav) ; Passive miscellanea (Pmisc)
The Neolithic material (2). Active tools ; introduction ; Active cutting edge tools (Acut) ; Active discoidal tools (Adisc) ; Active rectangular tools (Arect) ; Active square or circular tools (Asquare-circ) ; Active tools used with ends (Aend) ; Active globular tools (Aglobe) ; Active globular tools without stains (Aglobe-nostain) ; Active miscellanea (Amisc) ; Epilogue
Summary and conclusions. Raw material ; Manufacture ; Use and discard ; Chronological distribution ; Spatial distribution.

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