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Bones for tools - tools for bones : the interplay between objects and objectives / edited by Krish Seetah & Brad Gravina.

Contributor(s): Seetah, Krish | Gravina, BradMaterial type: TextTextSeries: McDonald Institute monographsPublication details: Cambridge : Oakville, CT, USA : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge ; David Brown Book Company [distributor], c2012. Description: xi, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cmISBN: 9781902937595; 1902937597Other title: Bones for toolsSubject(s): Bone implements, Prehistoric | Excavations (Archaeology)DDC classification: 930.10285 LOC classification: GN799.B65 | B665 2012Other classification: 15.30
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Combining Stones and Bones, Defining Form and Function, Inferring Lives and Roles / Krish Seetah -- pt. 1 Taphonomy and Technology -- ch. 2 When Bones are Not Enough: Lithic Refits and Occupation Dynamics in the Middle Palaeolithic Level 10 of Roca dels Bous (Catalonia, Spain) / Rafael Mora -- ch. 3 Testing the Spatial Association of Lithic and Faunal Remains: a Case Study from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon (Israel) / Liora Kolska Horwitz -- ch. 4 The Palaeolithic Poor Relation? Taphonomic Approaches to Archaeofaunas and their Implication for the Study of European Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence / Geoff M. Smith -- ch. 5 Reconstructing Animal-butchering Technology: Slicing Cut Marks from the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve Yam, Israel / Liora Kolska Horwitz -- ch. 6 Cause and Effect: the Impact of Animal Variables on Experimentally Produced Bone Lesions / Shaw Badenhorst -- pt. 2 Raw Materials, Operational Sequences and Decision-making -- ch. 7 Guanaco Butchering by Hunter-gatherers from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Southern Patagonia / A. Sebastian Munoz -- ch. 8 Diversity and Applications: Some Bone Tools from the Past to the Present in Southern Africa / Ina Plug -- ch. 9 Mammoth Bone Technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico / Luis Morett -- pt. 3 Subsistence and Cultural Practice -- ch. 10 Don't Smash Those Bones! Anatomical Representation and Bone Tool Manufacture in the Pampean Region (Argentina, South America) / Natacha Buc -- ch. 11 Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia / Philip J. Piper -- ch. 12 Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Environmental Adaptation or Social Transformation? / Laurent-Jacques Costa.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Combining Stones and Bones, Defining Form and Function, Inferring Lives and Roles / Krish Seetah -- pt. 1 Taphonomy and Technology -- ch. 2 When Bones are Not Enough: Lithic Refits and Occupation Dynamics in the Middle Palaeolithic Level 10 of Roca dels Bous (Catalonia, Spain) / Rafael Mora -- ch. 3 Testing the Spatial Association of Lithic and Faunal Remains: a Case Study from the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Holon (Israel) / Liora Kolska Horwitz -- ch. 4 The Palaeolithic Poor Relation? Taphonomic Approaches to Archaeofaunas and their Implication for the Study of European Lower Palaeolithic Subsistence / Geoff M. Smith -- ch. 5 Reconstructing Animal-butchering Technology: Slicing Cut Marks from the Submerged Pottery Neolithic Site of Neve Yam, Israel / Liora Kolska Horwitz -- ch. 6 Cause and Effect: the Impact of Animal Variables on Experimentally Produced Bone Lesions / Shaw Badenhorst -- pt. 2 Raw Materials, Operational Sequences and Decision-making -- ch. 7 Guanaco Butchering by Hunter-gatherers from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Southern Patagonia / A. Sebastian Munoz -- ch. 8 Diversity and Applications: Some Bone Tools from the Past to the Present in Southern Africa / Ina Plug -- ch. 9 Mammoth Bone Technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico / Luis Morett -- pt. 3 Subsistence and Cultural Practice -- ch. 10 Don't Smash Those Bones! Anatomical Representation and Bone Tool Manufacture in the Pampean Region (Argentina, South America) / Natacha Buc -- ch. 11 Eating Your Tools: Early Butchery and Craft Modification of Primate Bones in Tropical Southeast Asia / Philip J. Piper -- ch. 12 Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Transition: Environmental Adaptation or Social Transformation? / Laurent-Jacques Costa.