1st Edition

Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

Edited By Norah Moloney, Michael J Shott Copyright 2003
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively, they increase our understanding of issues such as tool function, means of production, raw material sourcing and exchange systems, and the evolution of human cognition, social organization and symbolic behavior.

    Part I Interpretative Approaches to Lithic Analysis; Chapter 1 Recent Investigations into the Later Acheulean of the Makapansgat Region, Northern Province, South Africa, John McNabb, Anthony Sinclair, Patrick Qninney; Chapter 2 The Mousterian Lithic Assemblages from Ras El-Kelb Cave, Lebanon, Lorraine Copeland, Norah Moloney; Chapter 3 The Mousterian in Action: Chronology, Mobility, and Middle Palaeolithic Variability, P. B. Pettitt; Chapter 4 A Late Upper Palaeolithic Flint Workshop from Rogalinek near PoznaÅ„, West Poland, Piotr Dmochowski; Chapter 5 The Çatalhöyük Obsidian Hoards: a Contextual Analysis of Technology, James Conolly; Chapter 6 Flint Use in Later Bronze Age and Iron Age England? Some Criteria for Future Research, Jodie Humphrey, Robert Young; Chapter 7 Later Prehistoric and Historic use of Flint in England, Hazel E. Martingell; Chapter 8 Lithic Scatters and Dynamic Archaeology, Chris Barrowman; Chapter 9 Knowledge and Practice: The Scottish Lithic Scatters Project and Stoneworking in Prehistory, Eland Stuart; Part II Analytical Techniques in Lithic Analysis; Chapter 10 A Refitter's Paradise: On the Conjoining of Artefacts at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands), Dimitri de Loecker, Jan Kolen, Wil Roebroeks, Paul Hennekens; Chapter 11 Size as a Factor in Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage Variation in the Old World: a North American Perspective, Michael J. Shott; Chapter 12 A Re-Evaluation of Palaeolithic Stone Tool Cutting Edge Production Rates and Their Implications, Joanne C. Tactikos; Chapter 13 Use-Wear in the 1990s in Western Europe: Potential and Limitations of a Method, Juan José Ibáñez, Jesús Emilio González; Chapter 14 A Method for Quantifying Size and Shape Dimensions of North American Hafted Bifaces, Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr; Chapter 15 Dating the Manufacture of Projectile Points using Thermoluminescence, Kris H. Wilhelmsen, James K. Feathers; Chapter 16 A Petrological Study of the Emerald Mines in the Egyptian Eastern Desert, I. Shaw, J. Bunbury;

    Biography

    Moloney, Norah; Shott, Michael J