Lithic Technology : Making and Using Stone Tools.

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: LITHIC TECHNOLOGY AND TAXONOMY -- Lithic Reduction Sequences: A Glossary and Discussion -- Lithic Technology as a Means of Processual Inference -- Idiosyncratic Behavior in Chipping Style: Some Hypotheses and Preliminary Analysis -- Graph Theoretic Analysis of Lithic Tools from Northern Chile -- "Punch Technique" and Upper Palaeolithic Blades -- PART TWO: EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF TOOLMAKING -- Comments on Lithic Technology and Experimental Archaeology -- The Experimental Study of Bipolar Flakes -- Remarks on Fragments with Languette Fractures -- Fractures for the Archaeologist -- PART THREE: APPLICATION OF ANALYSIS TO ARCHAEOLOGY -- The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts -- McKean and Little Lake Technology: A Problem in Projectile Point Typology in the Great Basin of North America -- Toolmaking and Tool Use Among the Preceramic Peoples of Panama -- A Study of Cuts, Grooves, and Other Marks on Recent and Fossil Bone: II Weathering Cracks, Fractures, Splinters, and Other Similar Natural Phenomena -- PART FOUR: DISCUSSION -- Comments -- Replies -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Plates, i-xl.

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