ARK2120/4120-Hunters and Gatherers and Stone Age Technology
Spring 2016
Literature marked (*) will be available in compendiums. The rest of the publications can be bought at Akademika or borrowed at the library, or they are available as PDF files through the University web.
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*Bodu, P. Karlin, C and Ploux, S. ¡°Who¡¯s Who? The Magdalenian Flintknappers of Pincevent, France¡± i : The big puzzle : International Symposium on Refitting Stone Artefacts, Monrepos, 1987 , red: E. Cziesla, S. Eickhoff, N.Arts and D. Winter, 1990. Monrepos. Studies in Modern Archaeology ; 1 , Bonn : Holos. s. 143-163.
*Dobres, Marcia-Anne ¡°Engendering the Cha?ne Op¨¦ratoire: Methodological Considerations¡± and ¡°A Future for Technology¡¯s Past¡± i: Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology, 2000. Oxford : Blackwell . s. 164-211.
* Dobres, Marcia-Anne and Christopher R. Hoffman ¡°Introduction: A Context for the Present and Future of Technology Studies¡± i: The Social Dynamics of Technology : Practice, Politics, and World Views, 1999. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press. s. Pages 1-19.
*Cahen, D. and L. H. Keeley ¡°Not less than two, not more than three¡± i : World Archaeology Early Man. Volume 12 No. 2, 1980. s. 166-180.
* Edmonds, Mark ¡°Description, Understand and the Cha?ne Op¨¦ratoire¡± i : Technology in the humanities, Archaeological Review from Cambridge. Summer, 1990. Cambridge: Department of Archaeology. 9:1. s. 55-70.
* Hodder, Ian ¡°In Technology in the Humanities: A Commentary¡± i: Technology in the humanities, Archaeological Review from Cambridge. Summer, 1990. Cambridge: Department of Archaeology. 9:1 . s. 154-157.
* Luedtke, Barbara E. ¡°Altered Cherts¡± i : An Archaeologist¡¯s Guide to Chert and Flint, 1992. Archaeological Research Tools 7, Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. s. 91-103.
* Pelegrin, Jacques ¡°Prehistoric Lithic Technology: Some Aspects of Research¡± i: Technology in the humanities, Summer, 1990. Archaeological Review from Cambridge. Cambridge: Department of Archaeology. 9:1 . s. 116-125.
* Fischer, A., 1990. On being a pupil of a flintknapper of 11,000 years ago. A preliminary analysis of settlement organisation and flint technology based on conjoined flint artefacts from the Trollegrave site, In: Cziesla, E. (Ed.), The Big Puzzle: International Symposium on Refitting Stone Artefacts, Monrepos, 1987. Holos, Bonn, pp. 447-464.
PDF available for free:
(€) Ambrose, S. H. 2001 Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution. Science, (291):1748-1753.
(€) Ambrose, S. H. 2001 Middle and Later Stone Age Settlement Patterns in the Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Comparisons and Contrasts. In Conard, N. J. (Ed.) Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age.21-43. T¨¹bingen, Kerns Verlag.
(€) Andrefsky, W. J. 2006 The application and misapplication of mass analysis in lithic debitage studies. Journal of Archaeological Science, (34):392-402.
(€)Andrefsky, W.J., 2009. The Analysis of Stone Tool Procurement, Production, and Maintenance. Journal of Archaeological Research 17, 65-103.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-008-9026-2#page-1
(€) Blumenschine, R. J., Masao, F. T., Tactikos, J. C. & Ebert, J. I. 2008 Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35 76-86.
(€) Bo?da, E., Geneste, J. M., Griggo, C., Mercier, N., Muhesen, S., Reyss, J. L., Taha, A. & Valladas, H. 1999 A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus): hafting, projectiles and Mousterian hunting weapons. Antiquity, 3 394-402.
(€) Bousman, C. B. 2005 Coping with risk: Later stone age technological strategies at Blydefontein Rock Shelter, South Africa. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 24 193-226.
(€) Baales, M. 2001 From Lithics to Spatial and Social Organization: Interpreting the Lithic Distribution and Raw Material Composition at the Final Palaeolithic Site of Kettig (Central Rhineland, Germany). Journal of Archaeological Science, 28 127-141.
(€)Carr, P.J., Bradbury, A.P., 2011. Learning From Lithics: A Perspective on the Foundation and Future of the Organization of Technology. PalaeoAnthropology, 305-319.
http://paleoanthro.org/journal/volumes/2011/
(€) Dibble, H. L., Philip G. Chase, Shannon P. McPherron & Tuffreau, A. 1997 Testing the Reality of a 'Living Floor' with Archaeological Data. American Antiquity, 62 (4):629-651.
(€) Eren, M.I., Roos, C.I., Story, B.A., von Cramon-Taubadel, N., Lycett, S.J., 2014. The role of raw material differences in stone tool shape variation: an experimental assessment. Journal of Archaeological Science 49, 472-487.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440314002143
(€) Merrick, H. V. & Brown, F. H. 1984 Obsidian sources and patterns of source utilization in Kenya and northern Tanzania: some initial findings. African Archaeological Review, 2 129-152.
(€) Minichillo, T. 2006 Raw material use and behavioral modernity: Howiesons Poort lithic foraging strategies. Journal of Human Evolution, 50 359-364.
(€) Pargeter, J., 2013. Rock type variability and impact fracture formation: working towards a more robust macrofracture method. Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 4056-4065.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313001969
(€) Shott, M. J. 1992 On Recent Trends in the Anthropology of Foragers: Kalahari Revisionism and Its Archaeological Implications. Man, New Series, 27 (4):843-871.
(€) Shott, M. J. & Sillitoe, P. 2005 Use life and curation in New Guinea experimental used flakes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32 653-663.
(€) Shott, M. J. & Weedman, K. J. 2007 Measuring reduction in stone tools: an ethnoarchaeological study of Gamo hidescrapers from Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34 1016-1035.
(€) Sillitoe, P. & Hardy, K. 2003 Living Lithics: ethnoarchaeology in Highland Papua New Guinea. Antiquity, 77 555-566.
(€) Soressi, M., Geneste, J.-M., 2011. The History and Efficacy of the Cha?ne Op¨¦ratoire Approach to Lithic Analysis: Studying Techniques to Reveal Past Societies in an Evolutionary Perspective. PaleoAnthropology 334-350
http://paleoanthro.org/journal/volumes/2011/
(€) Ta?on, P. S. C. 1991 The power of stone: symbolic aspects of stone use and tool development in western Arnhern Land, Australia. Antiquity, 65 192-207.
(€) Tostevin, G.B., 2011. Special Issue: Reduction Sequence, Cha?ne Op¨¦ratoire, and Other Methods: The Epistemologies of Different Approaches to Lithic Analysis. Introduction. PalaeoAnthropology, 293-296.
http://paleoanthro.org/journal/volumes/2011/
(€) Tostevin, G.B., 2011. Levels of theory and social practice in the reduction sequence and cha?ne op¨¦ratoire methods of lithic analysis. PaleoAnthropology 2011, 351-375.
http://paleoanthro.org/journal/volumes/2011/
(€) Villa, P., Delagnes, A. & Wadley, L. 2005 A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal): comparisons with the European Middle Paleolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32 399-422.
(€) Wadley, L. 2005 A Typological Study of the Final Middle Stone Age Stone Tools from Sibudu Cave, Kwazulu-Natal. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 60 (182):51¨C63.
(€) Wiessner, P. 1983 Style and Social Information in Kalahari San Projectile Points. American Antiquity, 48 (2):253-276.
(€) Wiessner, P. 2002 Hunting, healing, and hxaro exchange A long-term perspective on !Kung (Ju/¡¯hoansi) large-game hunting. Evolution and Human Behavior, 23 407¨C436.
Additional reading:
Crabtree, Don E.: An Introduction to Flintworking. , Second Edition. 1982. Occasional Papers of the Idaho Museum of Natural History, No. 28.
Helskog, Knut, Svein Indrelid og Egil Mikkelsen : ¡±Morfologisk klassifisering av sl?tte steinartefakter¡± , Oslo 1976. Universitetets Oldsaksamlingens ?rbok, 1972-1974. s. 9-40.
Inizan, M.-L., Reduron-Ballinger, M., Roche , H. & Tixier, J. 1999 Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone, Nanterre, CREP.
Whittaker, John C. ¡°Flintknapping: Basic Principles¡±, ¡°Raw Materials¡±, ¡°Hard hammer Percussion¡±, ¡°Pressure Flaking¡± and ¡°Using Stone Tools¡± i: Flintknapping : making and understanding stone tools, 1994. Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, Austin. ss. 11-21, 65-78, 85-176, 243-257