Understanding Chipped Stone Tools (Foundations of Archaeology) (Principles of Archaeology) - Softcover

Hayden, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734281863 ISBN 13: 9781734281866

Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications Inc, 2022

Synopsis

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluate possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions.<br /> <br /> The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and his considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools.

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About the Author

Brian Hayden is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. He has spent the past thirty years excavating at a large housepit village in the Interior of British Columbia, and has had a longstanding interest in understanding what artifacts can tell us about the societies and cultures that left them behind in the archaeological record.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734281863
• ISBN 13: 9781734281866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160