Understanding Chipped Stone Tools
Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

Author: Brian Hayden

Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1734281871

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This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluating various possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions. The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools."

Chipped Stone Tools in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico
Chipped Stone Tools in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico

Author: William J. Parry

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Chipped stone tools from archaeological sites can be a source of social and economic information about the inhabitants. In this volume, author William J. Parry presents his analysis of chipped stone tools found at Early and Middle Formative sites in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Volume 8 of the subseries Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca.

Understanding Chipped Stone Tools
Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

Author: Brian Hayden

Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications

Published: 2022-06-15

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 173428188X

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This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluating various possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions. The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools."

The Lives of Stone Tools
The Lives of Stone Tools

Author: Kathryn Weedman Arthur

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0816537135

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"This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.

Prehistoric Chipped Stone Tools of South Carolina
Prehistoric Chipped Stone Tools of South Carolina

Author: Tommy Charles

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781985163683

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A comprehensive field guide to prehistoric chipped stone tools of South Carolina based on over 350 private artifact collections from across the state. Filled with dozens of full-color photographs, maps and diagrams, this book is a must have resource for both the professional and amateur archaeologist. The book documents almost four decades of the Statewide Collectors Survey, initiated in 1979 by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. This work is a major contribution to the study of Native American artifacts in particular and understanding of the state's prehistory in general.

Stone Effigies of the High Plains Hunters
Stone Effigies of the High Plains Hunters

Author: James Gaskins

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1684560772

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This text is meant to educate and help people with the identification of unusual stones fashioned by early man. Many of these stones are nothing short of true works of art, as you will see. In these pages are photographs and drawings of stones collected over thirty years, and four years to write this book—60,000 words and 318 photos and drawings to help you understand how ancient man used and really looked at a stone, and you will too. There's no book like this on earth!

Lithics
Lithics

Author: William Andrefsky, Jr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-12-08

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521615006

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This fully updated and revised edition of William Andrefsky Jr's ground-breaking manual on lithic analysis is designed for students and professional archaeologists. It explains the fundamental principles of the measurement, recording and analysis of stone tools and stone tool production debris. Introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, classification, terminology and key concepts, the volume comprehensively explores methods and techniques, presenting detailed case studies of lithic analysis from around the world. It also examines new emerging techniques and includes a new section on stone tool functional studies.

Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians

Author: Ellen Sue Turner

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1589794656

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Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes charts, geographic distribution maps and reliable age-dating information. The authors also demonstrate how factors such as environment, locale and type of artifact combine to produce a portrait of theses ancient cultures.