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Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods
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Archaeopress Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: WQY7R9Q
EAN: 9781789698695
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Beschreibung
A system for the hierarchical Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods is offered in this book. It is hoped that it may find use as a guide book for archaeology students, museum staff, non-specialist archaeologists, local archaeology groups and lay enthusiasts. To allow the individual categories of lithic objects to be classified and characterised in detail, it was necessary to first define a number of descriptive terms, which forms the first part of this guide. The main part of the book is the lithic classification section, which offers definitions of the individual formal debitage, core and tool types. The basic questions asked are: what defines Object X as a tool and not a piece of debitage or a core; what defines a microlith as a microlith and not a knife or a piercer; and what defines a specific implement as a scalene triangle and not an isosceles one. As shown in the book, there are disagreements within the lithics community as to the specific definition of some types, demonstrating the need for all lithics reports to define which typological framework they are based on.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Torben Bjarke Ballin
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2021
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 100