The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making

From Origin to Modern Experimentation

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Gebonden, 536 blz. | Engels
Springer New York | 2012e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781461420026
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Human development is a long and steady process that began with stone tool making.  Because of this skill, humans were able to adapt to climate changes, discover new territories, and invent new technologies.  "Pressure knapping" is the common term for one method of creating stone tools, where a larger device or blade specifically made for this purpose is use to press out the stone tool.  Pressure knapping was invented in different locations and at different points in time, representing the adoption of the Neolithic way of life in the Old world.

Recent research on pressure knapping has led for the first time to a global thesis on this technique.  The contributors to this seminal work combine research findings on pressure knapping from different cultures around the globe to develope a cohesive theory.  This contributions to this volume represents a significant development to research on pressure knapping, as well as the field of lithic studies in general.

This work will be an important reference for anyone studying the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods, lithic studies, technologies, and more generally, cultural transmission.

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ISBN13:9781461420026
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:536
Uitgever:Springer New York
Druk:2012

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<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>
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