Bones as tools : current methods and interpretations in worked bone studies /

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Imprint:Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.
Description:iii, 182 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Language:English
Series:BAR international series ; 1622
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6326141
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Other authors / contributors:Gates St. Pierre, Christian.
Walker, Renee Beauchamp, 1968-
Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (69th : 2004 : Montreal, Canada)
ISBN:9781407300344
1407300342
Notes:"...originally collected for a symposium entitled "Recent developments in bone tool studies," organized for the 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Montreal (Canada) on April 2nd, 2004"--P. 3.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Christian Gates St-Pierre and Renee B. Walker
  • Bone tools and bone technology: a brief history / Genevieve M. LeMoine
  • The importance of the palaeontological and taphonomical analyses for the study of bone industries / Carole Vercoutère, Marylène Patou-Mathis and Giacomo Giacobini
  • Technology on bone and antler industries: a relevant methodology for characterizing early post-glacial societies (9th - 8th millennium BC) / Eva David
  • Prehistoric bone tools and the archaeozoological perspective: research in central Europe / Alice M. Choyke and Jörg Schibler
  • Methods, means, and results when studying European bone industries / Alexandra Legrand and Isabelle Sidéra
  • The use of bone and antler tools: two examples from the late Mesolithic in the Dutch coastal zone / Annelou van Gijn
  • Stability and change in bone tool use along the middle Missouri, North Dakota / Janet Griffitts
  • Bone awls of the St.Lawrence Iroquoians: a microwear analysis / Christian Gates St-Pierre
  • A diachronic study of pre- and post-contact antler, bone and shell artifacts from New York State / Renee B. Walker
  • Bone disc manufacturing debris from Newfoundland to Antigua during the historic period / Walter E. Klippel and Bonnie E. Price
  • Bone tool types and microwear patterns: some examples from the Pampa Region, South America / Natacha Buc and Daniel Loponte
  • A priliminary typology of perpendicularly hafted bone tipped tattooing instruments: toward a technological history of Oceanic tattooing / Benoît Robitaille
  • Bone artifacts and their importance to archaeology / Sandra L. Olsen.