Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools - Rilegato

Whittaker, John C.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0292790821 ISBN 13: 9780292790827

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Flintknapping, the making of stone tools, is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them.
Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker starts at the beginner level and progresses to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-by-step instructions for making several basic stone tool types. Numerous diagrams allow the reader to visualize the flintknapping process, and drawings of many stone tools illustrate the discussions and serve as models for beginning knappers.
Whittaker also considers the archaeological value of stone tools as a record of the history of past cultures and of the development of tool technology through time and its human consequences. He includes numerous references to scholarly and more general literature and an extensive bibliography for readers who wish to pursue these topics further.
Written for a wide amateur and professional audience, Flintknapping will be essential for practicing knappers as well as for teachers of the history of technology, experimental archaeology, and stone tool analysis.

Su questo libro

L'autore

John C. Whittaker is an assistant professor of anthropology at Grinnell College.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0292790821
• ISBN 13: 9780292790827
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 341