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028 _aInternational Book Distributors
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082 _a930.1028 AND
100 _aWilliam Andrefsky, Jr.
245 _aLithic technology
_b: measures of production, use, and curation
_c/William Andrefsky, Jr.
260 _aCambridge ; New York
_b: Cambridge University Press
_c, 2008.
300 _axviii, 340 pages
_b : illustrations, maps
_c; 24 cm
365 _b4274
505 _a An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization / William Andrefsky, Jr.-- Lithic reduction, its measurement and implications: comments on the volume / Michael J. Shott and Margaret C. Nelson -- Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices / Metin I. Eren and Mary E. Prendergast -- Unpacking production, resharpening and hammer type / Jennifer Keeling Wilson and Willian Andrefsky, Jr. -- The construction of morphological diversity: a study of mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal / Peter Hiscock and Chris Clarkson -- Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity / Brook Blades -- Stone tool perforating and retouch intensity: a neolithic case study / Colin Patrick Quinn [and others] -- Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants / Cheryl Harper and William Andrefsky, Jr. -- Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land-use William Andrefsky, Jr. -- The role of lithic raw material availability and quality in determining tool kit size, tool function, and degree of retouch: a case study from skink rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia / Douglas H. MacDonald -- Raw material and retouched flakes / Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr and D. Randall Cooper -- Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples from North America's Pacific Northwest region / Anna M. Prentiss and David S. Clarke -- Changing reduction intensity, settlement and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia / Chris Clarkson -- Lithic core reduction techniques: a model for predicting expected diversity / Nathan B. Goodale [and others].
520 _aThis volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes.
650 _aHistory
655 _aStone implements--Analysis
_bTools, Prehistoric--Analysis
700 _aWilliam Andrefsky, Jr.
942 _cBOOK
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