<p>Chapter 1. Introduction: Breaking Stones Without Striking Them</p><p> </p><p>Pierre M. Desrosiers</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 2. Pressure Débitage in the Old World. Forerunners, Researchers, Geopolitics: </p><p>Handing On the Baton</p><p> </p><p>Marie-Louise Inizan</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 3. Stoneworkers’ Approaches to Replicating Prismatic Blades</p><p> </p><p>John E. Clark</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 4. Early Holocene Climate Change and the Adoption of Pressure Technique in the Maghreb: the Capsian Sequence at Kef Zoura D (Eastern Algeria)</p><p> </p><p>Noura Rahmani and David Lubell</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 5. Pressure Blade Production with a Lever in the Early and Late Neolithic</p><p>of the Near East</p><p> </p><p>Ciler Altınbilek-Algül, Laurence Astruc, Didier Binder and Jacques Pelegrin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 6. Two examples of Pressure Blade Production with a Lever: Recent Research from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia) and Northern Mesopotamia (Syria, Iraq)</p><p> </p><p>Jacques Chabot and Jacques Pelegrin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 7. Pressure Knapping Blade Production in the North-Western Mediterranean Region during the 7<sup>th</sup> millennium cal B.C.</p><p> </p><p>Didier Binder, Carmine Collina, Raphaëlle Guilbert, Thomas Perrin and with the collaboration of Oreto Garcia-Puchol</p><p><p> </p><p>Chapter 8. Origin And Development Of Pressure Blade Production In The Southern Iberian Peninsula (6th-3rd Millennium B.C.)</p><p><p>Antonio Morgado and Jacques Pelegrin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 9. The Arrival and Development of Pressure Blade Technology in Southern Scandinavia</p><p> </p><p>Mikkel Sørensen</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 10. Surface Pressure Flaking in Eurasia: Mapping the innovation, diffusion and evolution of a technological element in the production of projectile points</p><p> </p><p>Kim Darmark</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 11. Emergence and Development of the Pressure Microblade Production: A View from the Upper Paleolithic of Northern Japan</p><p> </p><p>Jun Takakura</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 12. The Technique of Pressure Knapping in Central Asia: Innovation or Diffusion?</p><p> </p><p>Frédérique Brunet</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 13. Blades and Microblades, Percussion and Pressure: Towards the Evolution</p><p>of Lithic Technologies of the Stone Age Period, Russian Far East</p><p> </p><p>Andrei V. Tabarev</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 14. Pressure Microblade Industries in Pleistocene-Holocene Interior Alaska:</p><p>Current Data and Discussions</p><p><p>Yan Axel Gómez Coutouly</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 15. Eastern Arctic under Pressure: from Paleoeskimo to Inuit Culture (Canada and Greenland)</p><p></p><p>Pierre M. Desrosiers and Mikkel Sørensen</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 16. The Organizational Structures of Mesoamerican Obsidian Prismatic Blade Technology</p><p> </p><p>Kenneth G. Hirth</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 17. Development of Pressure Blade Technology in North-Central and West Mexico</p><p> </p><p>Véronique Darras</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 18. New Experimental Observations for the Characterization of Pressure Blade Production Techniques</p><p> </p><p>Jacques Pelegrin</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 19. Measurable Flintknapping for Long Pressure Blades</p><p> </p><p>P. Kelterborn</p><p>