Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

by Moloney,Norah; Moloney,Norah

• ISBN13: 9780905853390
• ISBN10: 0905853393
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Lithic Analysis at the Millennium: Introduction Norah Moloney and Michael J. Shott Part 1: Interpretative Approaches to Lithic Analysis 1. Recent Investigations into the Later Acheulean of the Makapansgat Region, Northern Province, South Africa 2. The Mousterian Lithic Assemblages from Ras El-Kelb Cave, Lebanon 3. The Mousterian in Action: Chronology, Mobility, and Middle Palaeolithic Variability 4. A Late Upper Palaeolithic Flint Workshop from Rogalinek near Poznan, West Poland 5. The Catalhoyuk Obsidian Hoards: a Contextual Analysis of Technology 6. Flint Use in Later Bronze Age and Iron Age England? Some Criteria for Future Research 7. Later Prehistoric and Historic use of Flint in England 8. Lithic Scatters and Dynamic Archaeology 9. Knowledge and Practice: The Scottish Lithic Scatters Project and Stoneworking in Prehistory Part 2: Analytical Techniques in Lithic Analysis 10. A Refitter's Paradise: On the Conjoining of Artefacts at Maastricht-Belvedere (The Netherlands) 11. Size as a Factor in Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages Variation in the Old World: a North American Perspective 12. A Re-Evaluation of Palaeolithic Stone Tool Cutting Edge Production Rates and Their Implications 13. Use-Wear in the 1990s in Western Europe: Potential and Limitations of a Method 14. A Method for Quantifying Size and Shape Dimensions of North American Hafted Bifaces 15. Dating the Manufacture of Projectile Points using Thermoluminescence 16. A Petrological Study of the Emerald Mines in the Egyptian Eastern Desert