Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of Stone age weaponry. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Radu Iovita, Katsuhiro Sano.
• Editors: Iovita, Radu; Sano, Katsuhiro
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 303 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 623.4/41; Weapons, Ancient; Stone age; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science; Stone age; Weapons, Ancient; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401776028; 9401776024; 9401776016; 9789401776011
• Related ISBNs: 9789401776011
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 2, 2016).
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