Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory / L'utilisation préhistorique de matières premières lithiques alternatives: Old prejudices and new directions

ISBN-13: 9781407304199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 268 str.

Laurent Jacques Costa; Lotte Eigeland; Farina Sternke

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Papers from the session Non-Flint Raw Material Use in Prehistory: Old prejudices and new directions (Vol. 11, Session C77) presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) The Scar Identification of Lithic Quartz Industries (Arturo de Lombera Hermida); 2) Reflections on Prismatic Blades - The Terminology of Blades and Classification of Lithic Artefacts in Central Sweden (Per Falkenstrom); 3) Approche comportementale du Magdalenien dapres letude techno-fonctionnelle de loutillage lithique hors silex. La grotte de Bourrouilla (Arancou, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France) (Loic Daulny & Morgane Dachary); 4) Petrographical composition and provenance of Neolithic Black stone artefacts in the collection of the Museum der Kulturen in Basel and in archaeological excavations near the shoreline of Lake Neuchatel Switzerland (Inge Diethelm); 5) Instrumental Methods of Obsidian Characterization and Prehistoric Obsidian Provenance Studies: the current status (Gerard Poupeau, Francois -X. Le Bourdonnec, Sarah Delerue, Stephan Dubernet, Rosa B. Scorzelli & Mathieu Duttine); 6) Functional analysis of macro-lithic artefacts: a focus on working surfaces (Jenny Adams, Selina Delgado, Laure Dubreuil, Caroline Hamon, Hugues Plisson & Roberto Risch); 7) The rock that rocks the rock An experimental study with hammerstones (Elin Hansen & Lotte Eigeland); 8) Lithic Raw Material Variability and Use-wear Accrual on Short-term Use Implements: An Example from Northwestern New Mexico (Harry Lerner); 9) Formation of use-wear traces in non-flint rocks: the case of quartzite and rhyolite. Differences and similarities (Ignacio Clemente Conte & Juan F. Gibaja Bao); 10) A functional comparison of Becov quartzite and flint tools: preliminary results (Petra Priorova, Linda Hronikova & Andrea ajnerova-Dukova); 11) Approche fonctionnelle des tessons a bords abrases du site neolithique ancien de Kovacevo (6200-5500 avant J.-C., Bulgarie) (Julien Vieugue); 12) Quinzano and Rivoli two Middle Neolithic sites in the Adige Valley (Verona, North-eastern Italy): lithic choices and functional aspects of the non-flint stone implements (Anna Lunardi); 13) Les rapes Baniwa et Wai Wai, derniers instruments de pierre taille indigenes dAmerique du Sud (Andre Prous, Jorge Manuel Costa e Souza, Filipe Amorelli, Marcio Alonso, Ana Carolina Rodriguez Cunha & Angelo Pessoa Lima); 14) Matieres premieres alternatives dans le Bresil central: quartz, quartzite, agate et hematite (Andre Prous, Andrei Isnardis, Angelo Pessoa Lima, Marcio Alonso, Henrique Pilo & Maria Clara Migliacio); 15) Pitted and grinding stones from Middle Palaeolithic settlements in Bohemia: a functional study (Andrea ajnerova-Dukova, Jan Fridrich & Ivana Skorova); 16) Le site magdalenien Final dEtigny le Brassot (Yonne, France): Un exemple dutilisation des roches non taillees pour le Tardiglaciaire du bassin Parisien (Gaelle Dumarcay); 17) The use of non-flint raw materials by Paleoindians in Eastern South America: A Brazilian perspective (Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo & Francisco Pugliese); 18) Lithic industries and raw material in Southern Italy Mousterian: an example from the Grotta dei Giganti (Salento, Apulia) (Enza Spinapolice); 19) The First Obsidian Workshop at the Polish Lowland a Technological and Microwear Study (Malgorzata Winiarska-Kabacinska & Jacek Kabacinski); 20) Mesolithic quartz quarrying in Eastern Middle Sweden In the light of a quarry excavated at Stjarneberg, Linkoping (Fredrik Molin, Magnus Rolof & Roger Wikell); 21) Obsidian Economy in the Rio Saboccu Open-Air Early Neolithic Site (Sardinia, Italy) (Carlo Luglie, Francois-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Gerard Poupeau, Consuelo Congia, Thomas Calligaro, Ignazio Sanna & Stephan Duberne); 22) The use of quartzite as a chrono-cultural marker in the Mesolithic of the Low Countries (Yves Perdaen, Philippe Crombe & Joris Sergant); 23) Quartz and other knapped raw materials of the South Indian Neolithic: A comparison of surface assemblages from three Indian ashmound sites (Ulla Rajala, Marco Madella & Ravi Korisettar); 24) What shall we leave behind ? From the mechanical analysis of rocks to stylistic variability in the Mesolithic of Brittany (Gregor Marchand & Rodrigue Tsobgou Ahoupe); 25) Irreplaceable? Or just not indispensable Substitution and complementarity in lithic raw material management in the Maya lowland (Chloe Andrieu).