The Exploitation Of Raw Materials In Prehistory

Author : Xavier Terradas Batlle,Telmo Pereira
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527505230

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The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory by Xavier Terradas Batlle,Telmo Pereira Pdf

This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are studying.

Author : Masayoshi Yamada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Commerce, Prehistoric
ISBN : 2930495243

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Lithic Raw Material Exploitation and Circulation in Prehistory by Masayoshi Yamada Pdf

Preface, Marcel Otte0Forward, Masayoshi Yamada0Introduction, Akira Ono0Part I – General perspectives01.1 – Rivers as orientation axes for migrations, exchange networks and transmission of cultural traditions in the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe, Harald Floss01.2 – The Contribution of obsidian characterization studies to early prehistoric archaeology, Tristan Carter01.3 – The mesolithic project Ullafelsen in Tyrol (Austria), Dieter Schäfer01.4 – Carpathian obsidians: state of art, Katalin T. Biró01.5 – Paleolithic of Ukraine: The main diachronic and spatial trends of lithic raw materials exploitation, Vadim Stepanchuk0Part II – Regional perspectives02.1 – The raw material variability in the mesolithic site of Ullafelsen (Sellrain, Tyrol, Austria), Stefano Bertola02.2 – Petroarchaeological research in the Carpathian Basin: methods, results, challenges, Katalin T. Biró02.3 – Obsidian outcrops in Ukrainian transcarpathians and their use during the Paleolithic time, Sergey Ryzov02.4 – Small opportunities and big needs: Mira Early Upper Paleolithic case of raw materials exploitation (Dnieper basin, Ukraine), Vadim Stepanchuk02.5 – Obsidian exploitation and circulation in Late Pleistocene Hokkaido in the northern part of the Japanese Archipelago, Hiroyuki Sato & Miyuki Yakushige02.6 – Upper Palaeolithic obsidian use in Central Japan: the origin of obsidian source exploitation, Kazutaka Shimada02.7 – Acquisition and consumption of obsidian in the Upper Palaeolithic on Kyushu, Japan, Kojiro Shiba.

Author : Anta Montet-White,Steven Holen,Steven R. Holen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Commerce, Prehistoric
ISBN : UIUC:30112052674303

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Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers by Anta Montet-White,Steven Holen,Steven R. Holen Pdf

Author : Davide Delfino,Paolo Piccardo,João Carlos Baptista
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784914240

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Networks of trade in raw materials and technological innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory: an archaeometry approach by Davide Delfino,Paolo Piccardo,João Carlos Baptista Pdf

Specialists from various disciplines (humanities and natural sciences) debate, from different perspectives, the networks in raw materials and technological innovation in Prehistory and Protohistory, involving investigation topics typical of archaeometry: archeometallurgy, petrography, and mineralogy

Author : Marian Berihuete-Azorín,María Martín Seijo,Oriol López-Bultó,Raquel Piqué
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789493194434

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The missing woodland resources by Marian Berihuete-Azorín,María Martín Seijo,Oriol López-Bultó,Raquel Piqué Pdf

Woodlands are a key source of raw materials for many purposes since early Prehistory. Wood, bark, resin, leaves, fibers, fungi, moss, or tubers have been gathered to fulfill almost every human need. That led societies to develop specific technologies to acquire, manage, transform, elaborate, use, and consume these resources. The materials provided by woodlands covered a wide range of necessities such as food, shelter, clothing, or tool production, but they also provided resources employed for waterproofing, dying, medicine, and adhesives, among many others. All these technological processes and uses are commonly difficult to identify through the archaeological record. Some materials are exclusively preserved by charring or in anaerobic conditions at very exceptional sites or leave only a very slight trace behind them (e.g., containers). Consequently, they have received far less attention in archaeobotanical studies compared to other kind of plant materials consumed as food or firewood. This book provides an overview of technological uses of plants from the Palaeolithic to the Post-Medieval period. This collection of papers presents different archaeobotanical and archaeological studies dealing with the use of a wide range of woodland resources, most of them among the less visible for archaeology, such as bast, fibers, and fungi. These papers present different approaches for their study combining archaeology, archaeobotany, and ethnoarchaeology.

Author : Linda M. Hurcombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317814542

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Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory by Linda M. Hurcombe Pdf

Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book demonstrates the efficacy of an holistic approach by using examples and cases studies. No other book covers such a broad range of organic materials from a social and object biography perspective, or concentrates so fully on approaches to the missing components of prehistoric material culture. This book will be an essential addition for those people wishing to understand better the nature and importance of organic materials as the ’missing majority’ of prehistoric material culture.

Author : Christophe Delage
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053028893

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Siliceous Rocks and Prehistory by Christophe Delage Pdf

The published evidence on lithic raw material procurement in prehistoric times that has been gathered since the nineteenth century is presented in many languages, and is available in both local and international journals. Nowadays, it appears quite overwhelming, almost impossible, to grasp the full extent of research regarding this topic. Publications on methodological grounds or on the synthesis of specific geographical areas have inevitably provided limited scope for reflection and discussion. This volume offers a reference that can provide the 'raw material' for scholars interested in furthering their understanding of prehistoric economic strategies of lithic procurement and exploitation. It is the result of several years collecting bibliographical references. Publications ranging from a simple mention of a few raw materials present at a specific site to detailed studies of lithic sourcing and procurement strategies or the geo-archaeological assessment of chert available in a particular region, have been taken into consideration.

Author : Emma L. Baysal
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789252873

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Personal Ornaments in Prehistory by Emma L. Baysal Pdf

Beads, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and many other ornaments are familiar objects that play a fundamental role in personal expression and communication. This book considers how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years, from hunter-gatherer life in the cave to urban elites, from expedient use of natural resources to complex technologies. Using evidence from archaeological sites across Turkey, the Near East and the Balkans, it explores the history of personal ornaments from their appearance in the Palaeolithic until the rise of urban centers in the Early Bronze Age and encompassing technologies ranging from stone cutting to early glazing, metallurgy and the roots of glass manufacture. The development of theoretical and practical approaches to ornaments and the current state of research are illustrated with a wide variety of examples. This book shows that far from being objects of display, of little value in archaeological interpretation and often overlooked, these artifacts are key to understanding trade, relationships, values, beliefs and the construction of personal identity in the past. Indeed, more than any other group of artifacts, their variety in material, form, use and distribution opens doors to both wide ranging scientific exploration and consideration of what it is to be human.

Author : Jonathon E. Ericson,Barbara A. Purdy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521256224

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Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production by Jonathon E. Ericson,Barbara A. Purdy Pdf

This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries. In the past archaeologists have placed much emphasis on the process of 'exchange' in their analysis of prehistoric economies while largely ignoring the sources of the exchanged objects. However, with the development of interest in the means of production, these sites have begun to take on a new significance. Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.

Author : David Addison,Rintaro Ono,Alex Morrison
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925021264

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Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions by David Addison,Rintaro Ono,Alex Morrison Pdf

Although historic sources provide information on recent centuries, archaeology can contribute longer term understandings of pre-industrial marine exploitation in the Indo-Pacific region, providing valuable baseline data for evaluating contemporary ecological trends. This volume contains eleven papers which constitute a diverse but coherent collection on past and present marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific region, within a human-ecological perspective. The geographical focus extends from Eastern Asia, mainly Japan and Insular Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines) to the tropical Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) and outlying sites in coastal Tanzania (Indian Ocean) and coastal California (North Pacific). The volume is divided thematically and temporally into four parts: Part 1, Prehistoric and historic marine resource use in the Indo-Pacific Region; Part 2, Specific marine resource use in the Pacific and Asia; Part 3, Marine use and material culture in the Western Pacific; and Part 4, Modern marine use and resource management.

Author : Françoise Bostyn,Jacek Lech,Alan Saville,Dagmara H. Werra
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803272221

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Prehistoric Flint Mines in Europe by Françoise Bostyn,Jacek Lech,Alan Saville,Dagmara H. Werra Pdf

This volume offers a review of major flint mines dating from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The 18 articles were contributed by archaeologists from Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden, using the same framework to propose a uniform view of the mining phenomenon.

Author : Davide Delfino,Paolo Piccardo,Joao Carlos Baptista
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784914231

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Networks of Trade in Raw Materials and Technological Innovations in Prehistory and Protohistory: an Archaeometry Approach by Davide Delfino,Paolo Piccardo,Joao Carlos Baptista Pdf

The papers collected in this book correspond to the lectures held during session B34 of UISPP conference in Burgos (June 2014) where the presentation of multidisciplinary works were encouraged. The main goal of bringing together specialists from various disciplines (humanities and natural sciences) was to debate, from different perspectives, the networks in raw materials and technological innovation in Prehistory and Protohistory, involving investigation topics typical of archaeometry: archeometallurgy, petrography, and mineralogy.

Author : Peter Topping
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257083

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Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe by Peter Topping Pdf

This new title in the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers series focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe through to the Atlantic periphery of Britain and Ireland. The key research questions are when and why these practices were adopted, and what role extraction sites played in Neolithic society. Neolithic mines and quarries have frequently been seen as fulfilling economic roles linked to the expansion of the Neolithic economy. However, this ignores the fact that many communities chose to selectively dig for certain types of stone in preference to others, and why the products from these sites were generally deposited in special places such as wetlands. To address this question, 168 near-global ethnographic studies were analysed to identify common trends in traditional extraction practises to produce robust statistics about their motivations and material signatures. Repeated associations emerged between storied locations, the organisation of extraction practises, long-distance distribution of products, and the material evidence such activities left behind. This suggests that we can now probably identify mythologised/storied sites, seasonality, ritualised extraction, and the uselife of extraction site products. The ethnographic model was tested against data from 223 near-global archaeological extraction sites which confirmed a similar patterning in both material records, suggesting it can be used to interpret broad trends in many cross-cultural contexts and time periods. Finally, the new ethnoarchaeological model has been used to analyse the social context of 79 Neolithic flint mine and 51 axe quarry excavations in Britain and Ireland, and to review their European origins. The evidence which emerges confirms the pivotal role played by Neolithic extraction practices in European Neolithisation, and that the interaction of indigenous foragers with migrant miner/farmers in Britain, Ireland and elsewhere was fundamental to the adoption of the new agro-pastoral lifestyle.

Author : Adnan Baysal
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789699272

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Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond by Adnan Baysal Pdf

This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.

Author : Lynn E. Fisher,Berit Valentin Eriksen
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056462628

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Lithic Raw Material Economies in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe by Lynn E. Fisher,Berit Valentin Eriksen Pdf

Lithic assemblages have always been an important source of information, sometimes the only source, on human activities in Late Glacial and Early Postglacial Europe. These twelve papers, some of which were given at the 59th Annual SAA meeting in Arnheim in 1994 (here revised) present comparative lithic material from across Europe.