Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Volume 9Department of Archaeology, 1990 - Archaeology |
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Page 87
... shaped through detaching ( say ) thirty successive flakes , is a task beyond the capacities of any living creature other than a human being . I am not surprised that a creature as able as the chimpanzee can approach these abilities ...
... shaped through detaching ( say ) thirty successive flakes , is a task beyond the capacities of any living creature other than a human being . I am not surprised that a creature as able as the chimpanzee can approach these abilities ...
Page 108
... shaped to some form of conic section , ranging from the circular to the leaf shaped . I would suggest that such shapes are not the product of an overwhelming urge to produce symmetrical objects , but rather are the result of a need to ...
... shaped to some form of conic section , ranging from the circular to the leaf shaped . I would suggest that such shapes are not the product of an overwhelming urge to produce symmetrical objects , but rather are the result of a need to ...
Page 133
... shaped facetted core maintenance / re - organization complex elementary long and regular short blade extraction economic productivity no illadvised insistence while operating no illadvised insistence at the end toward elaborated ...
... shaped facetted core maintenance / re - organization complex elementary long and regular short blade extraction economic productivity no illadvised insistence while operating no illadvised insistence at the end toward elaborated ...
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TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES | 3 |
Nathan Schlanger | 18 |
Pierre Lemonnier | 27 |
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Acheulean acquisition action on matter African archaeology analysis anthropology approach Archaeological Review argued artefacts aspects basis behaviour bifaces Cambridge 9:1 Cambridge University Press chaîne opératoire complex concept of technology context core debitage duration of apprenticeship East German Eastern Europe economic elements environment Etiolles evidence evolution evolutionary example flakes flintknapping Franchthi Cave function gesture Gowlett handaxe hominids human hunter-gatherers hunting and gathering individual industries Ingold innovation interpretation Karlin knapper knapping know-how knowledge Leroi-Gourhan lithic lithic analysis Magdalenian manufacture Marxism material culture Mauss meaning Mesolithic nature Neolithic object Oldowan operational organisation Palaeolithic Paris Pelegrin Perlès Pigeot possible practical prehistoric problem raw material relationship Review from Cambridge sequence simply skills social relations society spatial specific stone axes stone tools striking platform structure symbolic technical activities techniques techno-economic theoretical theory tion transformation understanding Upper Palaeolithic Wynn