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Author : Kathryn Weedman Arthur
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780816537136
"This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael T. Searcy
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816501267
In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.
Author : Mark Edmonds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135123208
Stone tools are the most durable and, in some cases, the only category of material evidence that students of prehistory have at their disposal. Exploring the changing character and context of stone tools in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, Mark Edmonds examines the varied ways in which these artefacts were caught up in the fabric of past social life. Key themes include:stone tool procurement and production * the nature of technological traditions * stone tools and social identity * the nature of exchange and the significance of depositional practices. As well as contributing to current debate about the interpretation of material culture, Dr. Edmonds uses the evidence of stone tools to reconsider some of the major horizons of change in later British prehistory.From the production of tools at spectacularly located quarries to their ceremonial burial or destruction at ritual monuments, this well-illustrated study demonstrates that our understanding of these varied and sometimes enigmatic artefacts requires a concern with their social, as well as their practical dimensions.
Author : Deborah Lock,DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780241345023
Find out everything that you need to know about the Stone Age: the life of a hunter and gatherer, what clothes people wore, the caves they lived in, as well as their arts and crafts creations. DK Reader Life in the Stone Age explores topics including mammoths, cave paintings, shamans, and shelters. Covering the old, middle, and new Stone Age eras of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic, the two and a half million year period is explained and provides young readers with everything they would need to know about life in the Stone Age in DK's informative and easy to read style. DK's innovative range of levelled readers combines a highly visual approach with non-fiction narratives that children will love reading. DK Reader Life in the Stone Age is a Level 2 reader, Beginning to Read, offering a delightful narrative for young children to encourage an interest in and desire to read. Simple sentences are used with an emphasis on frequently used words with strong visual clues and labels introducing and reinforcing vocabulary. Additional information spreads feature extra stone age facts for kids that develop the topic further. There's also a fun quiz to develop reading comprehension.
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0306451980
Lithic analysts have been criticised for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to the development of archaeological theory. Stone Tools' addresses this issue by presenting contributions that employ explicitly theoretical constructs to interpret the archaeological record.
Author : Robin Torrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521253500
This collection aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107006980
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Author : April Nowell,Iain Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39076002878424
Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of mental capabilities from early hominins to modern humans through the archaeological record. Dating as far back as 2.5-2.7 million years ago, stone tools were used in cutting up animals, woodworking, and preparing vegetable matter. Today, lithic remains give archaeologists insight into the forethought, planning, and enhanced working memory of our early ancestors. Contributors focus on multiple ways in which archaeologists can investigate the relationship between tools and the evolving human mind-including joint attention, pattern recognition, memory usage, and the emergence of language. Offering a wide range of approaches and diversity of place and time, the chapters address issues such as skill, social learning, technique, language, and cognition based on lithic technology. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition will be of interest to Paleolithic archaeologists and paleoanthropologists interested in stone tool technology and cognitive evolution.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424431
A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.
Author : Steven A. Rosen
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0761991247
Not everyone bought into the Bronze Age right away, and Rosen describes and classifies the stone tools that continued to be made and used in the Middle East for the next two thousand years. He considers subtypes, function, distribution, chronology, the organization of production, styles, the relationship between lithic and metal technology, and other aspects. Over 100 drawings and maps provide archaeologists with a guide to identifying finds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Brian Patrick Kooyman
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9781552380352
Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites is a valuable volume of investigative archaeology focuses on stone tools, the artifacts produced by these tools, and the revealing debris left behind at sites where they were produced. The majority of study sites discussed are in western North America, including Alberta's own Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a World Heritage Site. Suitable for both the scholar and the interested layperson, provides a comprehensive study in archaeological lithic analysis. This concise, "hands-on" guide to practical exploration at stone tool sites will become required reading for those pursuing studies of any sort in prehistoric lithic artifacts. The inclusion of maps, illustrations, and photographs broadens the reader's understanding of deriving meaning and relevance in the study of stone tool technology.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107123090
An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.
Author : Jacques Bordaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Man, Prehistoric
ISBN : PSU:000018091243
Author : Julian D. Hayden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816515714
Field Man is the memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden--a blue-collar scholar who challenged conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, brought a formidable pragmatism to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra Pinacate.
Author : John C. Whittaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015032521893
Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. John C. Whitaker's bestselling guide is a detailed handbook on flintknapping, 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. 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.
