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Projectile technology

Title
Projectile technology / edited by Heidi Knecht.
Publication
New York : Plenum Press, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
Knecht, Heidi.
Description
xviii, 408 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Series Statement
Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Uniform Title
Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
Subject
  • Projectile points > Analysis
  • Projectile points > Classification
  • Tools, Prehistoric
  • Stone implements
  • 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
  • Projectile points
  • Pfeilspitze
  • Speerspitze
  • Naturvolk
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Prehistorie
  • Gereedschappen
  • Stone implements > Expertising
  • Prehistoric peoples > Tools > Expertising
  • Antiquities > Expertising
  • Outils préhistoriques
  • Pfeilspitze
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Speerspitze
  • Naturvolk
Genre/Form
Classification.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The history and development of projectile technology research / Heidi Knecht -- Factors influencing the use of stone projectile tips: an ethnographic perspective / Christopher J. Ellis -- Middle Paleolithic spear point technology / John J. Shea -- The microwear and morphology of microliths from Gleann Mor / Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen -- Side-notched and unnotched arrowpoints: assessing functional differences / Andrew L. Christenson -- Sinew-reinforced and composite bows: technology, function, and social implications / Christopher A. Bergman and Edward McEwen -- Contributions of multidisciplinary experimentation to the study of Upper Paleolithic projectile points / Jean-Michel Geneste and Serge Maury -- Projectile points of bone, antler, and stone: experimental explorations of manufacture and use / Heidi Knecht -- Hunting during the Upper Paleolithic: bow, spearthrower, or both? / Pierre Cattelain -- Self-barbed antler spearpoints and evidence of fishing in the Late Upper Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain / James Pokines and Marcy Krupa -- Technology and variation in arrow design among the Agta of northeastern Luzon / P. Bion Griffin -- Hunting and multifunctional use of bows and arrows: ethnoarchaeology of technological organization among Pumé hunters of Venezuela / Russell D. Greaves -- A comparison of Kua (Botswana) and Hadza (Tanzania) bow and arrow hunting / Laurence E. Bartram, Jr. -- Each according to need and fashion: spear and arrow use among San hunters of the Kalahari / Robert Hitchcock and Peter Bleed -- Projectile points: form, function, and design / Margaret C. Nelson.
ISBN
  • 0306457164
  • 9780306457166
LCCN
97034477
OCLC
  • ocm37513070
  • 37513070
  • SCSB-350716
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library