Lithics

Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis

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Hardcover | 30 December 2005 | Edition Number 2

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326 Pages

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This book is a fully updated and revised edition of William Andrefsky Jr's ground-breaking manual on lithic analysis. Designed for students and professional archaeologists, this highly illustrated book 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, it comprehensively explores methods and techniques, presenting detailed case studies of lithic analysis from around the world. It examines new emerging techniques, such as the advances being made in lithic debitage analysis and lithic tool analysis, and includes a new section on stone tool functional studies. An extensive and expanded glossary makes this book an invaluable reference for archaeologists at all levels.

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' ... for a mostly technical reference work, the text is highly readable and well-illustrated. the book must be recommended as an indispensable and relatively comprehensive overview of lithic analysis.This edition of Lithics clearly illustrates that the discipline is growing stronger with increase emphasis on theoretical and methodological rigour.' South African Archaeological Bulletin

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List of figures	p. xii
List of tables	p. xvi
Preface	p. xix
Preface to second edition	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
A brief introduction to lithic analysis	p. 1
The organization of the book	p. 1
Early historical development	p. 3
A perspective on microwear	p. 5
The truth about replication	p. 7
Basics of stone tool production	p. 11
Basic terminology	p. 12
Fracture mechanics	p. 24
Stone tool morphological dynamics	p. 30
Summary	p. 38
Lithic raw materials	p. 41
A brief review of geochemical techniques	p. 43
Rock genesis	p. 46
Igneous rocks	p. 47
Sedimentary rocks	p. 50
Metamorphic rocks	p. 56
Summary	p. 59
Getting started in lithic analysis: identification and classification	p. 61
Attributes and attribute states	p. 62
Types and typologies	p. 66
A basic chipped stone typology	p. 74
Summary	p. 84
Flake debitage attributes	p. 86
Debitage condition and termination	p. 87
Debitage striking platforms	p. 89
Debitage size	p. 98
Debitage dorsal cortex	p. 103
Debitage curvature	p. 109
Summary	p. 111
Approaches to debitage analysis	p. 113
Typological analysis of debitage	p. 114
Aggregate analysis of debitage	p. 131
Dissecting debitage assemblages	p. 140
Summary	p. 141
Approaches to stone tool analysis	p. 143
Core analysis	p. 144
Flake tool analysis	p. 160
Biface analysis	p. 177
Tool function	p. 195
Summary	p. 199
Artifact diversity and site function	p. 201
Artifact types and function	p. 202
Site function models	p. 210
Summary	p. 221
Lithic analysis and prehistoric sedentism	p. 224
Sedentism and archaeology	p. 224
Sedentism in North America	p. 227
Occupation duration and the Mousterian of west-central Italy	p. 231
Raw-material qualities and relative sedentism	p. 235
Summary	p. 243
Conclusion	p. 245
Glossary	p. 252
References	p. 263
Index	p. 296
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