This is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis. Logically ordered, clearly written and well illustrated, it is designed for students and professional archaeologists. It introduces the reader to lithic raw materials, and the classification of stone artifacts, basic terminology and concepts, and explains the various methods and techniques of analysis. The final section illustrates their application through detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the world.
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"...provides project ideas for advanced students of lithic analysis." Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin
"Lithics joins other useful titles in the Cambridge Manuals series. It is written expressly for students and teachers of lithic analysis and will serve this audience well. It is more a text than a broad critical review of the field, but Lithics also rewards reading by practitioners." Journal of Anthropological Research
"We have needed a book like this for a long time, and this volume should be widely used both for classes in basic lithic analysis (for which there is no other text) and by students struggling with more osmotic approaches to learning about lithic analysis." Geoarchaeology
"Lithics joins other useful titles in the Cambridge Manuals series. It is written expressly for students and teachers of lithic analysis and will serve this audience well. It is more a text than a broad critical review of the field, but Lithics also rewards reading by practitioners." Journal of Anthropological Research
"We have needed a book like this for a long time, and this volume should be widely used both for classes in basic lithic analysis (for which there is no other text) and by students struggling with more osmotic approaches to learning about lithic analysis." Geoarchaeology
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This is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis. Logically ordered, clearly written and well illustrated, it is designed for students and professional archaeologists. It introduces the reader to lithic raw materials, and the classification of stone artifacts, basic terminology and concepts, and explains the various methods and techniques of analysis. The final section illustrates their application through detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the world.
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Simply the Best,
By Lawrence Lockyear JP (Gooseberry Hill, WA Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lithics (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) (Paperback)
The best book on the authentication and dating of stone items I have ever seen. A complete guide suitable for study or browsing. I even read mine in bed!!!
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one of the best for lithic analysis,
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This is a must have primer for anyone learning about stone tool manufacture. Andrefsky adeptly informs the reader of all the major aspects of non-micro lithic analysis, and I plan to require this book if when I teach lithics in the future.
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This book explains the lithic forms and reduction seqences as clearly as anyone, and better than most. Definitely one for the archaeologists reference shelf, and good for students.
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On a global scale an argument can be made and easily defended that chipped stone tools and debitage represent the most abundant form of artifacts found on prehistoric sites. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multidirectional cores, debitage characteristics, striking platform characteristics, freehand cores, bifacial production, debitage attributes, relative sedentism, prehistoric tool makers, winter hunt camps, bending flake, wedging initiation, hafted bifaces, haft element, striking platform angle, flake width, debitage specimens, production debitage, striking platform facets, bifacial thinning flakes, facial retouch, flat striking platforms, debitage analysis, debitage studies, feathered terminations, striking platform preparation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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On a global scale an argument can be made and easily defended that chipped stone tools and debitage represent the most abundant form of artifacts found on prehistoric sites. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multidirectional cores, debitage characteristics, striking platform characteristics, freehand cores, bifacial production, debitage attributes, relative sedentism, prehistoric tool makers, winter hunt camps, bending flake, wedging initiation, hafted bifaces, haft element, striking platform angle, flake width, debitage specimens, production debitage, striking platform facets, bifacial thinning flakes, facial retouch, flat striking platforms, debitage analysis, debitage studies, feathered terminations, striking platform preparation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Late, Swift Bar, Grotta Guattari, North America, Early Early, United States, Black Mesa, North Dakota, Van Peer, Australian Aborigines, Snake River New!
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- Lithic Analysis (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique) by George H. Odell on 5 pages
- Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers (Publications in Anthropology, No 19) by Anta Montet-White on 4 pages
- Experiments in Lithic Technology (pa-lith) by Daniel S. Amick on 4 pages
- Case Study by Ken Stone in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of Western Eurasia (University Museum Monograph) by Harold L. Dibble in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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