Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Stone Age weaponry / edited by Radu Iovita (MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre, Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM), Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie, Neuwied, Germany), Katsuhiro Sano (The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iovita, Radu, editor.

Sano, Katsuhiro, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series, 1877-9077

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weapons, Prehistoric.

Stone age.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Prehistoric peoples.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Weapons, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xvii, 303 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2016]

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 ; 2. Identifying weapon delivery systems using macrofracture analysis and fracture propagation velocity : a controlled experiment / Radu Iovita, Holger Schönekeß, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Frank Jäger ; 3. Experiments in fracture patterns and impact velocity with replica hunting weapons from Japan / Katsuhiro Sano, Yoshitaka Denda and Masayoshi Oba ; 4. Thirty years of experimental research on the breakage patterns of Stone Age osseous points. Overview, methodological problems and current perspectives / Jean-Marc Pétillon, Hugues Plisson and Pierre Cattelain ; 5. Levers, not springs : how a spearthrower works and why it matters / John C. Whittaker

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 ; 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 and Benjamin J. Schoville ; 8. Projectile damage and point morphometry at the early Middle Paleolithic Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel) : preliminary results and interpretations / Alla Yaroshevich, Yossi Zaidner and Mina Weinstein-Evron ; 9. Morpho-metric variability of early Gravettian tanged "Font-Robert" points, and functional implications / Annemieke Milks, Rob Dinnis and Matthew Pope ; 10. Early Gravettian projectile technology in southwestern Iberian Peninsula : the double backed and bipointed bladelets of Vale Boi (Portugal) / João Marreiros, Nuno Bicho, J uan Gibaja, João Cascalheira and Telmo Pereira ; 11. Uncertain evidence for weapons and craft tools : functional investigations of Australian microliths / Richard Fullagar ; 12. Projectiles and hafting technology / Veerle Rots

Part III. Measures of Weapon Performance. 13. Testing archaeological approaches to determining past projectile delivery systems using ethnographic and experimental data / C. Clarkson ; 14. Penetration, tissue damage, and lethality of wood- versus lithic-tipped projectiles / Paul E. Salem and Steven E. Churchill ; 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

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 ; 17. Survivorship distributions in experimental spear points : implications for tool design and assemblage formation / Michael J. Shott

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 and Judith Charlin ; 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 and Lyn Wadley

Part VI. Conclusions. 20. Summary and conclusions / Radu Iovita and Katsuhiro Sano.

Notes:

Volume based in part on a workshop of the same name organized by the editors and held at University of Mainz, Germany, in September 2011. (Preface).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9401776016

9789401776011

OCLC:

942380140