Lithic technology: making and using stone tools

✍ Scribed by Earl Herbert Swanson (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1975
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Edition: Reprint 2011
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: LITHIC TECHNOLOGY AND TAXONOMY
Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and Discussion
Lithic Technology as a Means of Processual Inference
Idiosyncratic Behavior in Chipping Style: Some Hypotheses and Preliminary Analysis
Graph Theoretic Analysis of Lithic Tools from Northern Chile
“Punch Technique” and Upper Palaeolithic Blades
PART TWO: EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF TOOLMAKING
Comments on Lithic Technology and Experimental Archaeology
The Experimental Study of Bipolar Flakes
Remarks on Fragments with Languette Fractures
Fractures for the Archaeologist
PART THREE: APPLICATION OF ANALYSIS TO ARCHAEOLOGY
The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts
McKean and Little Lake Technology: A Problem in Projectile Point Typology in the Great Basin of North America
Toolmaking and Tool Use Among the Preceramic Peoples of Panama
A Study of Cuts, Grooves, and Other Marks on Recent and Fossil Bone: II Weathering Cracks, Fractures, Splinters, and Other Similar Natural Phenomena
PART FOUR: DISCUSSION
Comments
Replies
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Plates, i–xl

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