Understanding Chipped Stone Tools - Brossura

Hayden, Brian

 
9781734281866: Understanding Chipped Stone Tools
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1734281863 ISBN 13: 9781734281866
Casa editrice: Eliot Werner Pubns Inc, 2022

Sinossi

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluating various possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions. The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools."

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Informazioni sull?autore

Brian Hayden is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. He has spent the past thirty years excavating at a large housepit village in the Interior of British Columbia, and has had a longstanding interest in understanding what artifacts can tell us about the societies and cultures that left them behind in the archaeological record.

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Editore
Eliot Werner Pubns Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1734281863
ISBN 13 
9781734281866
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
148
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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