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Axe age : Acheulian tool-making from quarry to discard
- Title
- Axe age : Acheulian tool-making from quarry to discard / edited by Naama Goren-Inbar and Gonen Sharon.
- Publication
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN772.2.A53 A94 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxix, 514 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Approaches to anthropological archaeology
- Uniform Title
- Approaches to anthropological archaeology
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Middle Pleistocene landscape of extraction: quarry and workshop complexes in northern Israel / Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher and Philip C. LaPorta -- The Acheulian quarry at Isampur, Lower Deccan, India / K. Paddayya, Richa Jhaldiyal and Michael D. Petraglia -- Acheulian quarries at hornfels outcrops in the Upper Karoo region of South Africa / C. Garth Sampson -- Invisible handaxes and visible Acheulian biface technology at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel / Naama Goren-Inbar and Gonen Sharon -- Bifaces from the Acheulian and Yabrudian layers of Tabun Cave, Israel / Izak Gisis and Avraham Ronen -- Preliminary observations on the Acheulian assemblages from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu / Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh -- Victoria West: a highly standardized prepared core technology / Gonen Sharon and Peter Beaumont -- The elements of design form in Acheulian bifaces: modes, modalities, rules and language / John A.J. Gowlett -- The handaxes of Revedim Quarry: typo-technological considerations and aspects of intra-site variability / Ofer Marder, Ianir Milevski and Zinovi Matskevich -- Acheulo-Yabrudian handaxes from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / Yossi Zaidner, Dotan Druck and Mina Weinstein-Evron.
- What typology can tell us about Acheulian handaxe production / Shannon P. McPherron -- Bifacially backed knives (Keilmesser) in the Central European Middle Palaeolithic / Olaf Jöris -- Some thoughts about Acheulian cleavers / Derek A. Roe -- Cleavers in the Levantine Late Acheulian: the case of Tabun Cave / Zinovi Matskevich -- Cleavers and handaxes with transverse cutting edge in the Acheulian of the Caucasus / Vasily P. Lyubin and Elena V. Belyaeva -- Axeing cleavers: reflections on broad-tipped large cutting tools in the British earlier Paleolithic / Mark J. White -- The Indian Acheulian in global perspective / Michael D. Petraglia -- Acheulian handaxes from the Upper Siwalik in Nepal / Gudrun Corvinus -- The Acheulian of Western Europe / Manuel Santonja and Paola Villa -- The known and the unknown about the Acheulian / Ofer Bar-Yosef.
- ISBN
- 1845531388
- 9781845531386
- LCCN
- 2006014972
- 9781845531386
- OCLC
- ocm68624081
- 68624081
- SCSB-1422999
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library