Overview

During a five-day symposium in late August 2003, a group of archaeologists, ethno-archaeologists and flint knappers met in Uppsala to discuss skill in relation to traditional stone-tool technologies and social reproduction. This volume contains 20 of the papers presented at the symposium, and the topics range from Oldowan stone technologies of the Lower Palaeolithic to the production of flint tools during the Bronze Age.

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Author:   Jan Apel ,  Kjel Knutsson
Publisher:   SAU, Stiftelsen Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis
Imprint:   SAU, Stiftelsen Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.898kg
ISBN:  

9789197374064

ISBN 10:   9197374067
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   12 December 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Skilled Production and Social Reproduction - an introduction t o the subject (Jan Apel and Kjel Knutsson); Skilled Production and Social Reproduction in prehistory and contemporary archaeology: a personal exegesis on dominant themes and their psychosocial influences (Marcia-Anne Dobres); Chapter 1: Experiments and Experience; Long blade technology in the Old World: an experimental approach and some archaeological results (Jacques Pelegrin); Experiments to explore the Paleoindian flake-core technology in southern Patagonia (Hugo Nami); Using the Jutland Type IC Neolithic Danish Dagger as a model to replicate parallel, edge-to-edge pressure flaking (Greg R. Nunn); Neolithic Danish Daggers: an experimental peek (Errett Callahan); Preliminary experimental observations on a particular class of bifacial lithic artifact from Misiones Province, northeastern Argentina (Hugo Nami); Chapter 2: Theoretical Aspects; A genealogy of reflexivity: The skilled lithic craftsman as scientist (Kjel Knutsson); Continuity of place: actions and narratives (Anders Hgberg); Skill and experimental archaeology (Jan Apel); Knowledge and know-how in the Oldowan: an experimental approach (Leslie Harlacker); Simple production and social strategies: do they meet? Social dimensions in Eastern Fennoscandian quartz technologies (Tuija Rankama, Mikael A. Manninen, Esa Hertell and Miikka Tallavaara); Skill and the question of blade crafting intensity at Classic Period Teotithuacan (Bradford Andrews); Rethinking the lithic blade definition: towards a dynamic understanding (Mikkel Srensen); Chapter 3: From Experience to Interpretation: Manifesting; Manifesting Microliths: insights and strategies from experimental replication (Nyree Finlay); Some remarks on Late Mesolithic hunter-gatherer societies as reflected in their flint technology: a case study from Central Poland (Marcin Was); High tech-low tech: lithic technology in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia (Kim Akerman); A matter of choice: social implications of raw material variability (Per Falkenstrm); Ground stone hammer axes in Sweden: production, life cycles and value perspectives, c. 2350-1700 cal. BC. (Per Lekberg); The Macrolithic flint blades of the neolithic times in Poland (Witold Migal); Flaked rhyolite from Jettble: attempts at an experimental explanation (Kim Darmark); Reference List.

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