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Author: Cristina Lemorini
Publisher: BAR International Series
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781407312880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the International Workshop, Rome, March 5th-7th, 2012
Author: Juan F. Gibaja
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-01-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1527544923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides the reader with a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools used by humans in the past. Including case studies from various geographic regions and different continents, and covering a wide range of chronologies, the contributions here are centred on the study of human communities based on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. A number of essays in this volume focus on tool production and use, and address major paleoanthropological questions related to past human economic and social behaviour. The book also includes detailed and careful studies of human technology during Prehistory.
Author: Michael P. Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 0521195225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the exciting and expanding field of archaeological science, for students, professionals and academics.
Author: Antonella Pedergnana
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-08-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1527537870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuartzite is a particularly frequently used lithology for knapping stone tools throughout all stages of human evolution. Despite this, however, there is a surprising lack of detailed methodological research on the formation and appearance of use-wear on this type of rock. As such, this book fills in a gap in the research, and proposes a new method to analyse use-wear on quartzite, by evaluating the variability of use-wear appearance on different rock varieties. This book is conceived as a handbook for the application of microwear analysis on quartzite, and is addressed to both students and lithic use-wear analysists. The extreme surface irregularities of quartzite, mainly due to its microcrystalline structure and the diverse orientation of quartz crystals surfaces, have always been regarded as a major obstacle when applying use-wear analysis. As shown here, the use of scanning electron microscopy allows this and other obstacles when observing highly reflective surfaces, such as quartzite, to be overcome.
Author: Australian Heritage Commission
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotated bibliography of published works and theses on Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia; compiled by author; subject and locality indexes.
Author: Martin Oswald Hugh Carver
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1315425033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Archaeology is for people’ is the theme of this book. Split between the academic and commercial sectors, archaeological investigation is also deeply embedded in the needs of local communities, making it simultaneously an art, science and social science. Such a multi-disciplinary discipline needs special methods and creative freedom, not repetitive responses. Carver argues that commercial procedures and academic theory are both suffocating creativity in fieldwork. He’d like to see us bring much more diversity and technical ingenuity to every opportunity, and maintains this is more a matter of getting ourselves free of dogma than needing more time and money. This has many implications for the way archaeology is designed and procured – moving archaeologists up the professional ladder from builder to architect, with contracts based on quality of design, not the price.
Author: Robin Torrence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the fundamental principles and methods of using ancient starch molecules to elicit plant use, environmental conditions, and social relations in the ancient world.
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven A. Rosen
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780761991243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot everyone bought into the Bronze Age right away, and Rosen describes and classifies the stone tools that continued to be made and used in the Middle East for the next two thousand years. He considers subtypes, function, distribution, chronology, the organization of production, styles, the relationship between lithic and metal technology, and other aspects. Over 100 drawings and maps provide archaeologists with a guide to identifying finds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Laura Longo
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the International Congress Verona (Italy) 20-23 April 2005 This book includes papers from the congress: Prehistoric Technology 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy held in Verona (Italy), 20-23 April 2005. Sessions: Methodology (seven contributions); Hunter-Gatherers (nine contributions); Food Producers (eight contributions); Complex Polities (six contributions); Burial Context (six contributions); Posters (thirty-two contributions); Round Table (eight contributions). Edited by Laura Longo and Natalia Skakun with the assistance of Massimo Saracino and Martina Dalla Riva.
