Lithic technology : measures of production, use, and curation /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
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| Description: | xviii, 340 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7357807 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Part I. Introduction, Background, and Review
- 1. An Introduction to Stone Tool Life History and Technological Organization
- 2. Lithic Reduction, Its Measurement, and Implications: Comments on the Volume
- Part II. Production, Reduction, and Retouch
- 3. Comparing and Synthesizing Unifacial Stone Tool Reduction Indices
- 4. Exploring Retouch on Bifaces: Unpacking Production, Resharpening, and Hammer Type
- 5. The Construction of Morphological Diversity: A Study of Mousterian Implement Retouching at Combe Grenal
- 6. Reduction and Retouch as Independent Measures of Intensity
- 7. Perforation with Stone Tools and Retouch Intensity: A Neolithic Case Study
- 8. Exploring the Dart and Arrow Dilemma: Retouch Indices as Functional Determinants
- Part III. New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology
- 9. Projectile Point Provisioning Strategies and Human Land Use
- 10. The Role of Lithic Raw Material Availability and Quality in Determining Tool Kit Size, Tool Function, and Degree of Retouch: A Case Study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia
- 11. Raw Material and Retouched Flakes
- Part IV. Evolutionary Approaches to Lithic Technologies
- 12. Lithic Technological Organization in an Evolutionary Framework: Examples from North America's Pacific Northwest Region
- 13. Changing Reduction Intensity, Settlement, and Subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia
- 14. Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected Diversity
- Index
