Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Stone Age weaponry

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Part Ⅰ Recognizing Weapons : Experimental Approaches
• 1 When Is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference / Wallace Karl Hutchings = 3
• 2 Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysis and Fracture Propagation Velocity : A Controlled Experiment / Radu Iovita ; Holger Schonekeß ; Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser ; Frank Jager = 13
• 3 Experiments in Fracture Patterns and Impact Velocity with Replica Hunting Weapons from Japan / Katsuhiro Sano ; Yoshitaka Denda ; Masayoshi Oba = 29
• 4 Thirty Years of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age Osseous Points. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives / Jean-Marc Petillon ; Hugues Plisson ; Pierre Cattelain = 47
• 5 Levers, Not Springs : How a Spearthrower Works and Why It Matters / John C. Whittaker = 65
• Part Ⅱ Recognizing Weapons : Archaeological Applications
• 6 Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and Early Holocene European Bone Assemblages and Their Implications for Our Knowledge on the Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology / Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser = 77
• 7 Edge Damage on 500-Thousand-Year-Old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa : The Combined Effects of Spear Use and Taphonomic Processes / Jayne Wilkins ; Benjamin J. Schoville = 101
• 8 Projectile Damage and Point Morphometry at the Early Middle Paleolithic Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel(Israel) : Preliminary Results and Interpretations / Alia Yaroshevich ; Yossi Zaidner ; Mina Weinstein-Evron = 119
• 9 Morpho-Metric Variability of Early Gravettian Tanged "Font-Robert" Points, and Functional Implications / Annemieke Milks ; Rob Dinnis ; Matthew Pope = 135
• 10 Early Gravettian Projectile Technology in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula : The Double Backed and Bipointed Bladelets of Vale Boi(Portugal) / Joao Marreiros ; Nuno Bicho ; Juan Gibaja ; Joao Cascalheira ; Telmo Pereira = 147
• 11 Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools : Functional Investigations of Australian Microliths / Richard Fullagar = 159
• 12 Projectiles and Haft ing Technology / Veerle Rots = 167
• Part Ⅲ Measures of Weapon Performance
• 13 Testing Archaeological Approaches to Determining Past Projectile Delivery Systems Using Ethnographic and Experimental Data / C. Clarkson = 189
• 14 Penetration, Tissue Damage, and Lethality of Wood- Versus Lithic-Tipped Projectiles / Paul E. Salem ; Steven E. Churchill = 203
• 15 Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing the Potential Use of Throwing Spears Among Neanderthals / Joseba Rios-Garaizar = 213
• Part Ⅳ Weapons as Curated Technologies
• 16 More to the Point : Developing a Multi-faceted Approach to Investigating the Curation of Magdalenian Osseous Projectile Points / Michelle C. Langley = 229
• 17 Survivorship Distributions in Experimental Spear Points : Implications for Tool Design and Assemblage Formation / Michael J. Shott = 245
• Part Ⅴ Weapons as Cultural and Cognitive Markers
• 18 Morphological Diversification of Stemmed Projectile Points of Patagonia(Southernmost South America). Assessing Spatial Patterns by Means of Phylogenies and Comparative Methods / Marcelo Cardillo ; Judith Charlin = 261
• 19 Hunting Technologies During the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu Cave : What They Reveal About Human Cognition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Between∼65 and 62 ka / Marlize Lombard ; Lyn Wadley = 273
• Part Ⅵ Conclusions
• 20 Summary and Conclusions / Radu Iovita ; Katsuhiro Sano = 289
• Index = 299