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Lithics / Stone Tools

A Circumpolar Reappraisal: The Legacy of Gutorm Gjessing (1906-1979)
Proceedings of an International Conference held in Trondheim, Norway, 10th-12th October 2008, arranged by the Institute of Archaeology and Religious Studies, and the SAK department of the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the Norwegian Universi
£95.00
Editors:
Christer Westerdahl
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407306964
Paperback:
380pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2154
Sub Title:
Proceedings of an International Conference held in Trondheim, Norway, 10th-12th October 2008, arranged by the Institute of Archaeology and Religious Studies, and the SAK department of the Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the Norwegian Universi
A volume dedicated to the achievements of Norwegian archaeologist Gutorm Gjessing (1906-1979). More
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£114.00
Author:
Marcos Terradillos Bernal
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407306971
Paperback:
454pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2155
Sub Title:
Estudio tecnológico y experimental
In this volume the author presents detailed patterns on several lithic collections coming from ancient sites of a limited area in... More
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£33.00
Author:
Aurélien Simonet
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
French with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407306988
Paperback:
135pp. Illustrated in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2156
Isturitz cave (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France) is a famous prehistoric reference site. Offering one of the most important stratigraphic... More
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Middle Dorset Variability and Regional Cultural Traditions
A Case Study from Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
£29.00
Author:
Sylvie LeBlanc
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307008
Paperback:
93pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2158
Sub Title:
A Case Study from Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
This research addresses the issue of variability within the Middle Dorset (2000-1100 B.P.) culture on the island of Newfoundland and on... More
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West African Archaeology
New developments, new perspectives
£45.00
Editors:
Philip Allsworth-Jones
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307084
Paperback:
180pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour
BAR number:
S2164
Sub Title:
New developments, new perspectives
This book contains papers read at the conference “West African archaeology, New developments, New perspectives”, co-sponsored by the... More
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Le Camp à Challignac (Charente) au IIIe millénaire av. J.-C.
Un établissement complexe de la culture d’Artenac dans le Centre-Ouest de la France
£123.00
Author:
Claude Burnez
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
French with an English summary
ISBN:
9781407307091
Paperback:
497pp. Includes illustrations in black and white and two plates in colour.
BAR number:
S2165
Sub Title:
Un établissement complexe de la culture d’Artenac dans le Centre-Ouest de la France
This fortified enclosure has been known since the middle of the 19th century, but the size and the state of preservation (with the height... More
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£52.00
Author:
Omry Barzilai
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307305
Paperback:
204pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2180
Sub Title:
The bidirectional blade industries
The aims of this research are two-fold. First is to present and systematically analyze the bidirectional flint blade industries from PPNB... More
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The First Neolithic Sites in Central/South-East European Transect, Volume II
Early Neolithic (Starčevo-Criş) Sites on the Territory of Romania
£39.00
Editors:
Sabin Adrian Luca and Cosmin Suciu
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307435
Paperback:
141pp. Illustrated throughout, 1 colour map, catalogue
BAR number:
S2188
Sub Title:
Early Neolithic (Starčevo-Criş) Sites on the Territory of Romania
The modelling of the process of Neolithization - one of the basic tasks of the FEPRE project - requires the building of a complete data... More
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£69.00
Editors:
P. Bueno Ramirez, E. Cerrillo Cuenca, A. Gonzalez Cordero
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English and Spanish
ISBN:
9781407307770
Paperback:
275pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2219
The convergence of a number of research groups with common interests in an area little favored by the traditional hypotheses of the... More
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£29.00
Author:
Michal Wasilewski
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407307817
Paperback:
100pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2223
Sub Title:
A geoarchaeological analysis
A new archaeological study of the volcanic region in southern Peru known as 'The Valley of the Volcanoes'. More
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La producción de instrumental lítico en Tiwanaku / Stone Tool Production in the Tiwanaku Heartland
El impacto del surgimiento y expansión del estado en las unidades domésticas locales / The impact of state emergence and expansion on local households
£74.00
Author:
Martín Giesso
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407308081
Paperback:
297pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
South American Archaeology Series, 11
BAR number:
S2244
Sub Title:
El impacto del surgimiento y expansión del estado en las unidades domésticas locales / The impact of state emergence and expansion on local households
This research explores the characteristics of stone tool production in the heart of the Andean state of Tiwanaku, comparing tool... More
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£76.00
Editors:
Marta Capote, Susana Consuegra, Pedro Díaz-del-Río and Xavier Terradas
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308319
Paperback:
303pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2260
This book includes papers representing the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the UISPP Commission on Flint Mining in... More
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Rock of Ages
South Molle Island Quarry, Whitsunday Islands: Use and Distribution of Stone through Space and Time
£29.00
Author:
Lara Lamb
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308333
Paperback:
105pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2262
Sub Title:
South Molle Island Quarry, Whitsunday Islands: Use and Distribution of Stone through Space and Time
There is evidence to suggest that the South Molle Island stone quarry in the Whitsunday Islands, central Queensland coast, has been used... More
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New Approaches to the Study of Surface Palaeolithic Artefacts
A pilot project at Zebra River, Western Namibia
£90.00
Author:
Terry Hardaker
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308449
Paperback:
364pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, data Appendices
BAR number:
S2270
Sub Title:
A pilot project at Zebra River, Western Namibia
This study of Palaeolithic Africa, an interim report, describes a large number of sites in the region of the Zebra River, Western... More
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£62.00
Author:
Jean-Philippe Faivre
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407308579
Paperback:
249pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2280
This study concerns lithic technical systems during the Middle Palaeolithic (Final Glaciation) in the north-east Aquitaine basin... More
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Zur Neolithisierung des Mittleren Niltals und angrenzender Regionen
Kultureller Wandel vom Mesolithikum zum Neolithikum im Nord- und Zentralsudan
£117.00
Author:
Annett Dittrich
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
German with full English summary
ISBN:
9781407308586
Paperback:
467pp. Illustrated throughout, with catalogue
BAR number:
S2281
Sub Title:
Kultureller Wandel vom Mesolithikum zum Neolithikum im Nord- und Zentralsudan
A study of cultural change and development from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the north and central Sudan. More
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To the West of Spanish Cantabria
The Palaeolithic Settlement of Galicia
£40.00
Editors:
A. de Lombera Hermida and R. Fábregas Valcarce
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308609
Paperback:
155pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2283
Sub Title:
The Palaeolithic Settlement of Galicia
This volume is a synthesis of the results obtained by the researchers in the oriental region of Galicia from the paleontological,... More
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The Minoan Double Axe
An experimental study of production and use
£43.00
Author:
Maria Lowe Fri
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308814
Paperback:
154pp. Illustrated throughout, some in colour, catalogue
BAR number:
S2304
Sub Title:
An experimental study of production and use
Since the double axe is such an important and symbolically charged object, emblematic for Minoan Crete, it has been discussed from... More
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£41.00
Author:
Helen R. Haines and Michael D. Glascock
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309095
Paperback:
169pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2326
Long-distance trade of obsidian in the Maya realm has been documented as early as the Middle Formative Period (1000-400 BC). Obsidian... More
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£89.00
Editors:
Alexandra Anders and Zsuzsanna Siklósi
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309170
Paperback:
351pp, Illustrated throughout, catalogue
Sub-series name:
Specific Targeted Research Project on the Formation of Europe: Prehistoric Population Dynamics and the Roots of Socio-Cultural Diversity
BAR number:
S2334
The third volume in the series looking at early Neolithic sites (Körös Culture) in the central and south-east European transect. More
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Tecnología lítica de los cazadores-recolectores del final del Pleistoceno
La producción y transformación de los soportes en La Garma A (Cantabria España) entre ca. 15.000 y 12.000 cal BC
£79.00
Author:
Adriana Chauvin Grandela
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
Spanish with an English summary
ISBN:
9781407309194
Paperback:
315pp. Ilustrated throughout, 3 data appendices.
BAR number:
S2336
Sub Title:
La producción y transformación de los soportes en La Garma A (Cantabria España) entre ca. 15.000 y 12.000 cal BC
'La Garma A' is a small cave located in the lower third of La Garma Hill (Cantabria, Spain), at 80m above sea level. It is situated near... More
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£75.00
Author:
Abbas Moghaddam
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309323
Paperback:
295pp. Illustrated throughout, 5 data Appendices
BAR number:
S2347
This study re-evaluates the previous understanding of the Later Village Period in Greater Susiana (southwestern Iran) by focusing mostly... More
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£97.00
Author:
Antony Borel
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
French with English summary
ISBN:
9781407309378
Paperback:
385pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2351
Sub Title:
Un nouvel apport à la compréhension des comportements humains
This research, centred on the Early Holocene (11,000-5000 BCE) lithic technologies found in and around the Song Terus cave (Gunung Sewu,... More
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£40.00
Editors:
Akira Ono and Masami Izuho
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309385
Paperback:
155pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2352
The Japan Association for Quaternary Research (JAQUA) and the Geological Survey of Japan (GSJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial... More
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Multifaceted Studies in South Asian Archaeology
Arpitam. Festschrift for Professor Vidula Jayaswal
£41.00
Editors:
S. Rama Krishna Pisipaty
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309484
Paperback:
171pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2361
Sub Title:
Arpitam. Festschrift for Professor Vidula Jayaswal
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£62.00
Author:
Catherine Frieman
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309521
Paperback:
248pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2365
In this study of prehistoric innovation, the author argues that a range of technologies and practices need to be considered in order to... More
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£26.00
Editors:
Cecilia Conati Barbaro and Cristina Lemorini
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309620
Paperback:
87pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2372
A collection of papers focusing on questions of Copper Age metallurgical contexts, outlining the importance of an integrated analysis of... More
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£47.00
Author:
Kerstin Pasda
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309644
Paperback:
187pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2374
Sub Title:
The skeletal remains
The Trail Creek Caves are located in limestone cliffs on the west bank of Trail Creek, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. In 1928, the Deering... More
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Lithic Production and Early Urbanism in China
A case study of the lithic production at the Neolithic Taosi Site (ca. 2500–1900BCE)
£48.00
Author:
Shaodong Zhai
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309767
Paperback:
193pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2384
Sub Title:
A case study of the lithic production at the Neolithic Taosi Site (ca. 2500–1900BCE)
This work investigates the contribution of economic activity to Chinese early urbanization, through a case study of the lithic production... More
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The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata
Excavations in St Mary Parish, Jamaica
£38.00
Author:
Philip Allsworth-Jones and Kit W. Wesler, with contributions from Lisabeth Carlson Simon F. Mitchell, Sherene A. James, Ryan Ramsook, Marcella Phillips, Nicole L. Patrick, Anthony R. D. Porter and Ana Luísa Santos
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310053
Paperback:
139pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2407
Sub Title:
Excavations in St Mary Parish, Jamaica
In 1998 the authors of this report initiated a Jamaican Taíno archaeological project as a joint program of the Department of History,... More
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£67.00
Author:
Talía Lazuén
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
Spanish with English summary
ISBN:
9781407310602
Paperback:
265pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2452
This volume presents research on the early Middle Palaeolithic in Cantabrian Spain (northern Atlantic façade), in particular on the... More
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£132.00
Author:
Anne Baron
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
French with German, Spanish and English abstracts
ISBN:
9781407310619
Paperback:
595pp. Illustrated throughout. Gazetteer of nearly 900 sites, catalogue of over 700 artefacts.
BAR number:
S2453
Sub Title:
(VIIIème-Ier s. av. J.-C.)
The numerous discoveries of black stone artefacts in Europe open new fields of research of great interest as regards the understanding of... More
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£38.00
Author:
Ceri Ben Kersey Shipton
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310794
Paperback:
131pp. Illustrated throughout.
BAR number:
S2468
The Acheulean is the longest archaeological period in history, and was produced by different hominin species such as Homo erectus and... More
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£36.00
Author:
Patrick Schmidt
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781407310817
Paperback:
127pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2470
This book looks at the transformations that intentional heat treatment causes in silica rocks when used as lithic raw material. Heat... More
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£31.00
Author:
Pierre M. Vermeersch
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310824
Paperback:
101pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2471
The late Palaeolithic Ahrensburgian site at Zonhoven-Molenheide was situated in a sandy podzol. It comprised several concentrations with... More
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Ethnoarchaeology: Current Research and Field Methods
Conference Proceedings, Rome, Italy, 13th-14th May 2010
£68.00
Editors:
Francesca Lugli, Assunta Alessandra and Stoppiello Stefano Biagetti
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English, French and Italian
ISBN:
9781407310831
Paperback:
339pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2472
Sub Title:
Conference Proceedings, Rome, Italy, 13th-14th May 2010
This volume is a collection of the contributions to the Ethnoarchaeology Conference 'Ethnoarchaeology: Current Research and Field... More
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From Funeral Monuments to Household Pottery
Current advances in Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB/TBK) research: Proceedings of the Borger Meetings 2009, The Netherlands
£52.00
Editors:
J. A. Bakker, S. B. C. Bloo and M. K. Dütting
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310855
Paperback:
203pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2474
Sub Title:
Current advances in Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB/TBK) research: Proceedings of the Borger Meetings 2009, The Netherlands
In November 2009 an international conference on the Trichterbecher Kultur (Funnel Beaker culture; TRB) was held in Borger, the... More
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NW Europe in Transition
The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
£31.00
Editors:
Mats Larsson and Jolene Debert
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407310879
Paperback:
97pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2475
Sub Title:
The Early Neolithic in Britain and South Sweden
This book is concerned with the developments that followed on from the introduction of farming into Britain and Southern Scandinavia... More
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£61.00
Author:
Selina Delgado-Raack
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9781407311364
Paperback:
273pp. Includes black and white and colour illustrations
BAR number:
S2518
Sub Title:
Campañas 1963-1970: una aproximación paleoeconómica
Cerro de la Virgen is a classic site on the Iberian peninsula for the Copper-Bronze Age transition. Excavations in the 1960s and 1970s... More
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Unconformist Archaeology
Papers in honour of Paolo Biagi
£47.00
Editors:
Elisabetta Starnini
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311463
Paperback:
153pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
BAR number:
S2528
Sub Title:
Papers in honour of Paolo Biagi
This honorary volume offered to Paolo Biagi for his 65th birthday brings together papers by his friends, former students and colleagues,... More
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Mobility, Transition and Change in Prehistory and Classical Antiquity
Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology Organisation Conference on the Fourth and Fifth of April 2008 at Hertford College, Oxford, UK
£46.00
Editors:
Paul R Preston, assistant editor Katia Schörle
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407311524
Paperback:
183pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2534
Sub Title:
Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology Organisation Conference on the Fourth and Fifth of April 2008 at Hertford College, Oxford, UK
This volume stems from the proceedings of the third conference of the Graduate Archaeology Organisation at Oxford (GAO) held 4-5 April,... More
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Variabilité et signification des productions lithiques au Paléolithique moyen ancien
L’exemple de trois gisements de plein-air du Bergeracois (Dordogne, France)
£70.00
Author:
Michel Brenet
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
French with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407311685
Paperback:
355pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2548
Sub Title:
L’exemple de trois gisements de plein-air du Bergeracois (Dordogne, France)
This work addresses the question of inter- and intra-site variability and its behavioral significance through a techno-economic analysis... More
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El IV milenio ANE en el Guadalquivir Medio
Intensificación agrícola y fragua de la comunidad doméstica aldeana
£81.00
Author:
Rafael Mª Martínez Sánchez
Publication Year:
2013
Language:
Spanish with English abstract
ISBN:
9781407311845
Paperback:
469pp. Includes 160 figures
BAR number:
S2563
Sub Title:
Intensificación agrícola y fragua de la comunidad doméstica aldeana
This study aims to represent an integrated approach of the historical process that took place in the Middle Guadalquivir lowlands (SW... More
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Khashabian
A Late Paleolithic Industry from Dhofar, southern Oman
£52.00
Author:
Yamandú Hieronymus Hilbert
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312330
Paperback:
221pp, Illustrated throughout
Sub-series name:
British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs (formerly Society for Arabian Studies Monographs), 15
BAR number:
S2601
Sub Title:
A Late Paleolithic Industry from Dhofar, southern Oman
The author has undertaken a technological and typological analysis of lithic assemblages from southern Oman dating between 10,000 to... More
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£47.00
Author:
Theodora Moutsiou
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312446
Paperback:
185pp. Illustrated throughout
BAR number:
S2613
Obsidian-bearing sites spanning the temporal framework of the Palaeolithic and located in Africa and Europe are analysed with the aim of... More
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£49.00
Editors:
Akira Ono, Michael D. Glascock, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin and Yoshimitsu Suda
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312552
Paperback:
200pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2620
This volume is a collection of papers related to different aspects of obsidian studies (mainly geology, geochemistry, and archaeology) in... More
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Artefactos Líticos, Movilidad y Funcionalidad de Sitios: Problemas y Perspectivas
Lithic Artefacts, Mobility and Site Functionality: Problems and Perspectives
£38.00
Editors:
Patricia Susana Escola and Salomón Hocsman
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
Spanish text with one paper in English
ISBN:
9781407312651
Paperback:
138pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
South American Archaeology Series, 20
BAR number:
S2628
Sub Title:
Lithic Artefacts, Mobility and Site Functionality: Problems and Perspectives
This book discusses the relationship between mobility and / or archaeological sites functionality and lithic artifacts. The problems... More
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£31.00
Editors:
Maria Estela Mansur, Marcio Alonso Lima and Yolaine Maigrot
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407312828
Paperback:
98pp, Includes illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Sub-series name:
Proceedings of the XVI World Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-10 September 2011), 6
BAR number:
S2643
Sub Title:
Vol 6, Session XXXV
Since it was established as a formal discipline, use-wear analysis has become routine practice in archaeological research, under the... More
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