Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community / edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCall, Grant S., editor.

Horowitz, Rachel A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Economics, Prehistoric.

Prehistoric peoples--Antiquities.

Prehistoric peoples.

Tools, Prehistoric--Analysis.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Stone implements--Analysis.

Stone implements.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2018]

Summary:

"Examining lithic technology in sedentary societies around the world and showcasing information that in-depth, cutting-edge, lithic analytical techniques provides. Highlighting important contributions to the field of lithics and how they can improve the study of sedentary Mesoamerican societies, as well as other ancient societies around the world"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lithics in sedentary societies : themes, methods, and directions / Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall

Urban lithics : the role of stone tools in the Indus civilization and at Harappa / Mary A. Davis

The importance of being ad hoc : patterns and implications of expedient lithic production in the Bronze Age in Israel / Francesca Manclossi and Steven A. Rosen

Leaving no stone unturned : expedient lithic production among preclassic households of San Estevan, Belize and K'o and Hamontún, Guatemala / Jason S. R. Paling

The economic organization of the extraction and production of utilitarian chert tools in the Mopan Valley, Belize / Rachel A. Horowitz

Chert at Chalcatzingo : implications of knapping strategies and technological organization for formative economics / Grant S. McCall, Rachel A. Horowitz, Dan M. Healan, and David C. Grove

Unraveling sociopolitical organization using lithic data : a case study from an agricultural society in the American Southwest / Fumiyasu Arakawa

Using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to source Burlington chert from the Carson site, 22CO505, Coahoma County, Mississippi / Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Grant S. McCall, Theodore Marks, and James Enloe

Stone age economics : efficiency, blades, specialization, and obsolescence / John C. Whittaker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607328926

1607328925

OCLC:

1103811447