Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production

Herausgeber: Ericson, Jonathon E.; Purdy, Barbara A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109239
• ISBN-10: 052110923X
• Artikelnr.: 26032888

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Toward the analysis of lithic production systems
Jonathon E. Ericson; Part II. Procurement, Production and Exchange: 2.
Mount Jasper: a direct-access lithic source area in the White Mountains of
New Hampshire R. M. Gramly; 3. Procurement without quarry production:
examples from southwestern Idaho R. L. Sappington; 4. The 63-kilometer fit
C. A. Singer; 5. Monopoly or direct access? Industrial organization at the
Melos obsidian quarries R. Torrence; 6. Lithic material demand and quarry
production B. E. Luedtke; 7. Economic aspects of prehistoric quarrry use: a
case study in the American southwest F. J. Findlow and M. Bolognese; 8.
Preliminary report on the obsidian mines at Pico de Orizaba, Vweracruz T.
L. Stocker and R. H. Cobean; 9. state controlled procurement and the
obsidian workshops of Teotihuacán, Mexico M. W. Spence, J. Kimberlin and G.
Harbottle; Part III. Technology and Techniques: 10. Jigsaw: reconstructive
lithic technology H. M. Leach; 11. Quarrry studies: technological and
chronological significance B. A. Purdy; 12. Characterization of selected
soapstone sources in southern New England W. A. Turnbaugh, S. P. Turnbaugh
and T. H. Keifer; 13. Reconstructing Corbiac: the context of manufacturing
at an Upper Paleolithic quarry E. C. Gibson; Index.