Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools : A Methodology /

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"The capacity to mount stone tools in or on a handle is considered an important innovation in past human behaviour. The insight to assemble two different materials (organic and inorganic) into a better functioning entity indicates the presence of the required mental capacity and technological e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rots, Veerle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Archeologie > Methodologie.
Prehistoire > Methodologie.
Outils prehistoriques.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Stone implements.
Flintwork.
Flintknapping.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Outils de pierre.
Debitage (Prehistoire)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Research methodology
  • Prehension and hafting traces: dreams or reality?
  • Prehension traces
  • dominant variable: material worked
  • Hafting traces
  • dominant variables I: use motion and material worked
  • Hafting traces
  • dominant variables II: hafting material and hafting arrangement
  • Hafting traces-secondary variables
  • Indirect evidence of hafting
  • Blind test
  • Discussion
  • General conclusions.

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