Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Colección: | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 When is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference
- Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysis and Fracture Propagation Velocity: A Controlled Experiment
- 3 Experiments in Fracture Patterns and Impact Velocity with Replica Hunting Weapons from Japan
- 4 Thirty Years of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age Osseous Points. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives
- 5 Levers, Not Springs: How a Spearthrower Works and Why it Matters
- 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
- 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
- 8 Projectile Damage and Point Morphometry at the Early Middle Paleolithic Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel): Preliminary Results and Interpretations
- 9 Morpho-metric Variability of Early Gravettian Tanged “Font-Robert” Points, and Functional Implications
- 10 Early Gravettian Projectile Technology in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula: the Double Backed and Bipointed Bladelets of Vale Boi (Portugal)
- 11 Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools: Functional Investigations of Australian Microliths
- 12 Projectiles and Hafting Technology
- 13 Testing Archaeological Approaches to Determining Past Projectile Delivery Systems using Ethnographic and Experimental Data
- 14 Penetration, Tissue Damage, and Lethality of Wood- Versus Lithic-Tipped Projectiles
- 15 Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing the Potential Use of Throwing Spears among Neanderthals
- 16 More to the Point: Developing an Multi-Faceted Approach to Investigating the Curation of Magdalenian Osseous Projectile Points
- 17 Survivorship Distributions in Experimental Spear Points: Implications for Tool Design and Assemblage Formation
- 8 Morphological Diversification of Stemmed Projectile Points of Patagonia (Southernmost South America). Assessing Spatial Patterns by Means of Phylogenies and Comparative Methods
- 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
- 20 Summary and Conclusions.