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eralogy, supplemented by thin-section petrography and atomic-absorption spectrophotometry were all used to help characterize archaeological soapstone artifacts and link them to their geologic source. The book's final chapter, authored by Eric Gibson, involves a study of stone tool manufacturing activities a t the Upper Paleolithic quarry site of Corbiac, in southwestern France. He notes consistencies in technology and appearance of manufactured tools and their low variability in form. Gibson suggests that the flintknappers were socially related, part-time specialists. The reader should also be aware of a somewhat similar study published by Gibson in Lithic Technology (Vol. 11, No. 3, 1982; note that the volume number is omitted in the reference on p. 145).
While this book has much to commend it, some of the papers could have been more fully developed and the overall quality could have been improved by tighter editing. There are numerous typographic errors, omissions (as the one noted above), and misspellings (I immodestly note the misspelling of "Hestor" in the first chapter; Ericson has persisted in this spelling through our years of correspondence and perpetuates it in his paper-though it is corrected elsewhere!). These remarks and my earlier displeasure with quality and cost should not, however, deter lithic specialists from obtaining this important reference.