Research Catalog

Title

Lithic use-wear analysis / edited by Brian Hayden.

Author

Conference on Lithic Use-Wear, 1st, Simon Fraser University, 1977.

Publication

New York : Academic Press, ©1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hayden, Brian

Description

xviii, 413 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in archaeology.

Uniform Title

Studies in archaeology

Subject

• Stone implements > Congresses
• Mechanical wear > Congresses
• 15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology
• Mechanical wear
• Stone implements
• Steen (materiaal)
• Gebruiksvoorwerpen
• Slijtage
• Archeologie

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• "Proceedings of the Conference on Lithic Use-Wear, held at Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, from March 16 through March 20, 1977."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

An introduction to use-wear : the first CLUW / Brian Hayden and Johan Kamminga -- The place of lithic use-wear studies in behavioral archaeology / Michael B. Schiffer -- A review of experimental traceological research in the USSR / Jeff Levitt -- An inventory system perspective of groundstone artifact use-wear at the joint site / Frederick J.E. Gorman -- Discussion : General considerations -- Mechanisms of microcontact fracture in brittle solids / B.R. Lawn and D.B. Marshall -- Regarding fracture initiations / Are Tsirk -- The mechanics of flaking / Brian Cotterell and Johan Kamminga -- Experimental evidence for the significance of attributes used in edge-damage analysis / Robert A. Lawrence -- The calculation of edge loss on chipped-stone tools resulting from use / John Tomenchuk -- The Ho Ho Classification and Nomenclature Committee report -- Discussion : fractures and angles -- The nature of use-polish and abrasive smoothing on stone tools / Johan Kamminga -- The nature of so-called polished surfaces on stone artifacts / George Diamond -- Once upon a striation : current models of striation and polish formation / Terry A. Del Bene -- Scanning electron microscopy analysis of use-striae / Daryl Fedje -- Discussion : smoothing, polish, and striations -- Testing a method of microwear analysis with experimental flint tools / M.H. Newcomer and L.H. Keeley -- Snap, shatter, and superfractures : use-wear of stone skin scrapers / Brian Hayden -- The wear and use of battered tools at Armijo Rockshelter / Walter A. Dodd Jr. -- Soapstone modification and its effects on lithic implements / Terry A. Del Bene and Phillip H. Shelley -- Observations on the use of stone tools : dulling of working edges of some chipped stone to[o]ls in bison butchering / George C. Frison -- Inference and imposition in lithic analysis / Ruthann Knudson -- Discussion : inferring worked materials -- Raw materials as a functional variable in use-wear studies / Sally T. Greiser and Payson D. Sheets -- Discussion : raw materials -- Functional analysis of nonobsidian chipped stone artifacts : terms, variables, and quantification / Stanley A. Ahler -- A new improved system for the retrieval of functional information from microscopic observations of chipped stone tools / George H. Odell -- A new method for observation and recording of use-wear / Jørgen Ilkjaer -- Fundamental statistical considerations in the study of microwear / Jack D. Nance -- Discussion : experimental and analytical procedures -- Ascending paper chromatographic technique in archaeology / Michael Broderick -- Organic residue analysis in determining stone tool function / Harry J. Shafer and Richard G. Holloway -- Stonework of the Xêtá Indians of Brazil / Tom O. Miller.

ISBN

• 0123339502
• 9780123339508

LCCN

79012019

OCLC

• ocm04832151
• 4832151
• SCSB-2119

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library