Keeping your Edge: Recent Approaches to the Organisation of Stone Artefact Technology (Paperback)

The aim of this volume is to present papers applying recent insights from the organization of technology to the interpretation of stone artefact assemblages from a range of archaeological contexts. Specific attention is paid to the techniques by which people acquired and maintained cutting edge technology, and the situational variables which encouraged them to employ those techniques. Contents: 1) Keeping your edge: recent approaches to the organisation of stone artefact technology (Ben Marwick and Alex Mackay); 2) Stone Artefact Technology in Willandra National Park: Reduction, Risk and Mobility (Patrick Faulkner); 3) Technology and technological change in eastern Australia, the example of Capertee 3 (Peter Hiscock and Val Attenbrow); 4) Standardisation and Design: The Tula Adze in Western New South Wales (Trudy Doelman and Simon Holdaway); 5) Scraper Reduction Continuums and Efficient Tool Use: Testing Hiscock and Attenbrow's Model (Kate Connell and Chris Clarkson); 6) The Role of Reworking in New Zealand Adze Technology (Marianne Turner);

General

Imprint:	Bar Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Archaeological Reports International Series
Release date:	October 2011
Editors:	Alex MacKay • Ben Marwick
Dimensions:	297 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	142
ISBN-13:	978-1-4073-0847-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological methodology & techniques Promotions
LSN:	1-4073-0847-5
Barcode:	9781407308470

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