Prehistoric quarries and lithic production /

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Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Description:viii, 149 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Series:New directions in archaeology
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/608623
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Other authors / contributors:Ericson, Jonathon E.
Purdy, Barbara A.
ISBN:0521256224
Notes:Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Toward the analysis of lithic production systems
  • Part II. Procurement, Production and Exchange
  • 2. Mount Jasper: a direct-access lithic source area in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
  • 3. Procurement without quarry production: examples from southwestern Idaho
  • 4. The 63-kilometer fit
  • 5. Monopoly or direct access? Industrial organization at the Melos obsidian quarries
  • 6. Lithic material demand and quarry production
  • 7. Economic aspects of prehistoric quarrry use: a case study in the American southwest
  • 8. Preliminary report on the obsidian mines at Pico de Orizaba, Vweracruz
  • 9. state controlled procurement and the obsidian workshops of TeotihuacÃín, Mexico
  • Part III. Technology and Techniques
  • 10. Jigsaw: reconstructive lithic technology
  • 11. Quarrry studies: technological and chronological significance
  • 12. Characterization of selected soapstone sources in southern New England
  • 13. Reconstructing Corbiac: the context of manufacturing at an Upper Paleolithic quarry
  • Index