| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"The capacity to mount stone tools in or on a handle is considered an important innovation in past human behaviour. The insight to assemble two different materials (organic and inorganic) into a better functioning entity indicates the presence of the required mental capacity and technological expertise. Although the identification of stone tool use based on microscopic analysis was introduced in the 1960s, distinguishing between hand-held and hafted tool use has remained a more difficult issue. This volume introduces a methodology, based on a systematic, in-depth study of prehension and hafting traces on experimental stone artefacts, which allows their recognition in archaeological assemblages"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Research methodology -- Prehension and hafting traces: dreams or reality? -- Prehension traces -- dominant variable: material worked -- Hafting traces -- dominant variables I: use motion and material worked -- Hafting traces -- dominant variables II: hafting material and hafting arrangement -- Hafting traces-secondary variables -- Indirect evidence of hafting -- Blind test -- Discussion -- General conclusions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Flintknapping.
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Flintknapping. |
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Tools, Prehistoric.
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Tools, Prehistoric. |
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Stone implements.
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Stone implements. |
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Flintwork.
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Flintwork. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rots, Veerle. Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools. Leuven : Leuven University Press, c2010 9789058678010 (OCoLC)611405492 |
| ISBN |
9789461660060 electronic book |
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9461660065 electronic book |
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9789058678010 print |
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9058678016 print |
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