Research Catalog

Title

Multiple approaches to the study of bifacial technologies / edited by Marie Soressi and Harold L. Dibble.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2003], ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dibble, Harold Lewis.
• Soressi, Marie.
• University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94041684

Description

xiv, 290 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

University Museum monograph ; 115

Uniform Title

University Museum monograph ; 115.

Subjects

• Paleolithic period
• Tools, Prehistoric
• Projectile points
• Stone implements

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Biface Technological Development and Variability in the Acheulean Industrial Complex in the Middle Awash Region of the Afar Rift, Ethiopia / Kathy Schick and J. Desmond Clark -- 2. Acheulean Bifaces and Early Human Behavioral Patterns in East Africa and South India / Michael P. Noll and Michael D. Petraglia -- 3. Technological and Typological Variability in the Bifaces from Tabun Cave, Israel / Shannon P. McPherron -- 4. Bifacial Tools in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Caucasus and Their Contexts / Vladimir Doronichev and Lubov Golovanova -- 5. Bifaces and Raw Materials: Flexible Flaking in the British Early Paleolithic / Nick Ashton and Mark White -- 6. Manufacture, Transport, and Use of Mousterian Bifaces: A Case Study from the Perigord (France) / Marie Soressi and Maureen A. Hays -- 7. From Bifaces to Leaf Points / Janusz K. Kozlowski -- 8. Solutrean Laurel Leaf Point Production and Raw Material Procurement During the Last Glacial Maximum in Southern Europe: Two Examples from Central France and Portugal / Thierry Aubry, Miguel Almeida, Maria Joao Neves and Bertrand Walter -- 9. The Pitfalls of Using Bifaces as Cultural Markers / Marcel Otte -- 10. Deformation Modeling: A Methodology for the Analysis of Handaxe Morphology and Variability / April Nowell, Kyoungju Park, Dimitris Metaxas and Jinah Park -- 11. Rethinking the Role of Bifacial Technology in Paleoindian Adaptations on the Great Plains / Douglas B. Bamforth -- 12. Tethered to Stone or Freedom to Move: Folsom Biface Technology in Regional Perspective / Jack L. Hofman -- 13. Time as Sequence, Type as Ideal: Whole-Object Measurement of Biface Size and Form in Midwestern North America / Michael J. Shott -- 14. An Overview, with Some Thoughts on the Study of Bifaces / Derek A. Roe.

ISBN

1931707421 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002008942

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries