Research Catalog

Title

Bones as tools : current methods and interpretations in worked bone studies / edited by Christian Gates St-Pierre, Renee B. Walker.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gates St. Pierre, Christian
• Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (69th : 2004 : Montreal, Canada)
• Walker, Renee Beauchamp, 1968-

Description

iii, 182 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 1622

Subject

• Bone implements > Congresses
• Bone implements, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Congresses

Note

• "...originally collected for a symposium entitled "Recent developments in bone tool studies," organized for the 69th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in Montreal (Canada) on April 2nd, 2004"--P. 3.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Christian Gates St-Pierre and Renee B. Walker -- Bone tools and bone technology: a brief history / Genevieve M. LeMoine -- The importance of the palaeontological and taphonomical analyses for the study of bone industries / Carole Vercoutère, Marylène Patou-Mathis and Giacomo Giacobini -- Technology on bone and antler industries: a relevant methodology for characterizing early post-glacial societies (9th - 8th millennium BC) / Eva David -- Prehistoric bone tools and the archaeozoological perspective: research in central Europe / Alice M. Choyke and Jörg Schibler -- Methods, means, and results when studying European bone industries / Alexandra Legrand and Isabelle Sidéra -- The use of bone and antler tools: two examples from the late Mesolithic in the Dutch coastal zone / Annelou van Gijn -- Stability and change in bone tool use along the middle Missouri, North Dakota / Janet Griffitts -- Bone awls of the St.Lawrence Iroquoians: a microwear analysis / Christian Gates St-Pierre -- A diachronic study of pre- and post-contact antler, bone and shell artifacts from New York State / Renee B. Walker -- Bone disc manufacturing debris from Newfoundland to Antigua during the historic period / Walter E. Klippel and Bonnie E. Price -- Bone tool types and microwear patterns: some examples from the Pampa Region, South America / Natacha Buc and Daniel Loponte -- A priliminary typology of perpendicularly hafted bone tipped tattooing instruments: toward a technological history of Oceanic tattooing / Benoît Robitaille -- Bone artifacts and their importance to archaeology / Sandra L. Olsen.

ISBN

• 9781407300344
• 1407300342

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library