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Tools versus Cores - Alternative Approaches to Stone Tool Analysis (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Tools versus Cores - Alternative Approaches to Stone Tool Analysis (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The papers in this volume address an incredibly basic question in
stone tool studies, namely whether a particular lithic artifact
should be classified as a tool, thus implying that at some time in
the past it was used directly to perform activities, or whether it
should instead be classified as a core, meaning that its purpose
was to produce flakes some of which were then made into tools. This
question is so basic that it would seem archaeologists should have
solved it by now, and in most instances this is the case. This
volume, however, looks at some of the remaining problem cases in
part to find out if they can be solved, but mainly because the
really difficult cases raise the more challenging and interesting
methodological issues, which can in turn lead us to question and
overhaul long-held assumptions and long-used approaches to the
study of stone tools. This is, in fact, what happens in this volume
with papers that discuss assemblages from Lower/Middle Paleolithic
sites in Europe and southwest Asia to more recent Holocene sites in
the New World and Australia. In some instances the very idea of
classifying these artifacts as one or the other is entirely
discarded; in other instances, it is assumed they fit in both
categories, and the behavioral implications are assessed. The end
result in each case is a richer understanding of the past less
encumbered by categories archaeologists bring to the study.
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