Product Description

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 debris. Logically ordered, clearly written and well illustrated, it is designed for students and professional archaeologists. The first section provides the necessary background information, introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, and the classification of stone artifacts, basic terminology and concepts. It goes on to discuss various methods and techniques of analysis. The final section presents detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the world, illustrating the actual application of the techniques and methods discussed earlier.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #802485 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 286 pages

Review
‘Logically ordered, clearly written, and well illustrated.’ Coins and Antiquities

‘ … the readership for this book is potentially vast. Its easy reading, happily light on neo-positivist formulae, quantifications and statistics, and its excellent graphic documentation, recommendable and instructive to these technical and arid subjects of description and formal classification of flaked lithic artefacts.’ Antiquity

‘This is a comprehensive guide to ancient stone tool studies and analysis … This book is a welcome manual and overall summary to lithic artefact studies, and its twenty pages of references will serve as a rich source for students and excavators.‘ Open University Geological Society Journal