Bones for tools - tools for bones : the interplay between objects and objectives

Parallelsachtitel: Bones for tools
Weitere Verfasser: Seetah, Krish
Gravina, Brad
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, UK : Oakville, CT, USA : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge ; David Brown Book Company [distributor], 2012.
Umfang/Format: xi, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: McDonald Institute monographs
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Combining Stones and Bones, Defining Form and Function, Inferring Lives and Roles / Krish Seetah
  • pt. 1 Taphonomy and Technology
  • ch. 2 When Bones are Not Enough: Lithic Refits and Occupation Dynamics in the Middle Palaeolithic Level 10 of Roca dels Bous (Catalonia, Spain) / Rafael Mora
  • ch. 3 Testing the Spatial Association of Lithic and Faunal Remains: a Case Study from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon (Israel) / Liora Kolska Horwitz
  • ch. 4 The Palaeolithic Poor Relation? Taphonomic Approaches to Archaeofaunas and their Implication for the Study of European Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence / Geoff M. Smith
  • ch. 5 Reconstructing Animal-butchering Technology: Slicing Cut Marks from the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve Yam, Israel / Liora Kolska Horwitz
  • ch. 6 Cause and Effect: the Impact of Animal Variables on Experimentally Produced Bone Lesions / Shaw Badenhorst
  • pt. 2 Raw Materials, Operational Sequences and Decision-making
  • ch. 7 Guanaco Butchering by Hunter-gatherers from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Southern Patagonia / A. Sebastian Munoz
  • ch. 8 Diversity and Applications: Some Bone Tools from the Past to the Present in Southern Africa / Ina Plug
  • ch. 9 Mammoth Bone Technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico / Luis Morett
  • pt. 3 Subsistence and Cultural Practice
  • ch. 10 Don't Smash Those Bones! Anatomical Representation and Bone Tool Manufacture in the Pampean Region (Argentina, South America) / Natacha Buc
  • ch. 11 Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia / Philip J. Piper
  • ch. 12 Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Environmental Adaptation or Social Transformation? / Laurent-Jacques Costa.