Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry

 

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2018
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
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9789402413915
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1When is a Point a Projectile?  Morphology, Impact Fractures, ScientificRigor, and the Limits of Inference.- Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysisand Fracture Propagation Velocity: A Controlled Experiment.- 3 Experiments inFracture Patterns and Impact Velocity with Replica Hunting Weapons from Japan.-4 ThirtyYears of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age OsseousPoints. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives.- 5 Levers, Not Springs: How aSpearthrower Works and Why it Matters.- 6 Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and EarlyHolocene European Bone Assemblages and their Implications for Our Knowledge onthe Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology.- 7 Edge Damage on500-thousand-year-old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: the CombinedEffects of Spear Use and Taphonomic Processes.- 8 Projectile Damage and Point Morphometry at the Early Middle PaleolithicMisliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel): Preliminary Results and Interpretations.- 9 Morpho-metric Variability of EarlyGravettian Tanged 'Font-Robert' Points, and Functional Implications.- 10 Early Gravettian ProjectileTechnology in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula: the Double Backed and BipointedBladelets of Vale Boi (Portugal).- 11 Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools: FunctionalInvestigations of Australian Microliths.- 12 Projectiles and Hafting Technology.- 13 Testing Archaeological Approachesto Determining Past Projectile Delivery Systems using Ethnographic andExperimental Data.- 14 Penetration,Tissue Damage, and Lethality of Wood- VersusLithic-Tipped Projectiles.- 15 Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern IberianPeninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing thePotential Use of Throwing Spears among Neanderthals.- 16 More to the Point: Developing anMulti-Faceted Approach to Investigating the Curation of Magdalenian OsseousProjectile Points.- 17 Survivorship Distributions in Experimental Spear Points: Implicationsfor Tool Design and Assemblage Formation.- 8 MorphologicalDiversification of Stemmed Projectile Points of Patagonia (Southernmost SouthAmerica). Assessing Spatial Patterns by Means of Phylogenies and ComparativeMethods.- 19 Hunting Technologies during the Howiesons Poort atSibudu Cave: What They Reveal about Human Cognition in KwaZulu-Natal, SouthAfrica, between ~ 65 and 62 ka.- 20 Summary and Conclusions.

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