Understanding Stone Tools
Understanding Stone Tools This generously illustrated instructional guide explains the examination and analysis of stone tools and stone-tool sites anywhere in the world. Kooyman explores the…
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Understanding Stone Tools
This generously illustrated instructional guide explains the examination and analysis of stone tools and stone-tool sites anywhere in the world. Kooyman explores the production, function, and context of stone tools to understand how human cultures used lithic tools at particular sites and to give readers the practical skills for lithic and site analysis. Lithics expert Brian P.
The author draws on extensive field work in North America, particularly at Head-Smashed-In in Alberta, Canada. The guide covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis. However, the theory, methodology, and analysis applies to the investigation of stone tools and lithic sites worldwide.