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This book is for students and practitioners of not only knapping,
lithic technology and archaeology, but also of fractography and
fracture mechanics. At conferences on fractography of glasses and
ceramics, the author has often been asked to demonstrate knapping
as well as provide overviews of fractography learned from it. The
first part of the book is intended to stimulate such interests
further, in order to solicit contributions from a largely untapped
pool of experts. Such contributions can advance significantly our
understandings of knapping as well as fractography. In Part II of
the book, fracture markings as the tools of fractography are
introduced, with their formation, meaning and utility explained.
Observations on the presence or absence of the markings in knapping
are considered in Part III, along with a number of interpretations
of fracture features. The basic principles and concepts of fracture
mechanics and fractography apply to fractures produced in any
cultural context. This volume therefore addresses most questions on
fracture in a generic sense, independent of cultural contexts. In
general, understanding of fractures provides a sounder basis for
lithic analysis, and use of more recent scientific tools opens new
avenues for lithic studies.
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