ResumenLa frecuencia y morfología de las muescas producidas por la roedura de
carnívoros en huesos largos de bóvidos (muescas de dientes) y aquéllas producidas por la …

Flake debris—the by-product of lithic reduction—is abundant, not subject to uncontrolled
collection, and sometimes culturally diagnostic. Its greatest virtue, however, is in registering …

One of the difficulties inherent in the study of the later stages of human evolution is the need
to reconcile two different taxonomic systems, the biological systematics of hominid fossils …

This book is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis, with detailed
examples of how to measure, record and analyse stone tools and stone tool production …

Archaeological research has increasingly turned to ques tions about the organization of
behavior in all realms of culture. The specific questions asked and the units of analysis used …

The results of history lie strewn around us, but we cannot, in principle, directly observe the
processes that produced them. How then can we be scientific about the past! As a general …

The paper describes a series of experiments recently carried out to test the formation of
edge-damage on flaked stone tools which results from their being used in various tasks …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses land-mammal bones, their biological properties,
the various modification processes they can undergo, and the agencies responsible for …

Steven A. Rosen's Lithics After the Stone Age is the first in-depth analysis of post-Stone-Age
tools. For Near Eastern archaeologists, he provides the first comprehensive typology and …

An understanding of the mechanics involved in flake formation provides an opportunity for
deriving more behavioral information from flake and flake scar morphology. The mechanics …