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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2013
      28 February 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139026314
      9781107006980
      9781107552029
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139026314
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.81kg, 422 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 422 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Prehistory, Archaeology
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    Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago. It is intended both as an introduction to this lithic evidence for students and as a resource for researchers working with Paleolithic and Neolithic stone tool evidence. Written by a lithic analyst and professional flintknapper, this book systematically examines variation in technology, typology, and industries for the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic; the Epipaleolithic; and Neolithic periods in the Near East. It is extensively illustrated with drawings of stone tools. In addition to surveying the lithic evidence, the book also considers ways in which archaeological treatment of this evidence could be changed to make it more relevant to major issues in human origins research. A final chapter shows how change in stone tool designs points to increasing human dependence on stone tools across the long sweep of Stone Age prehistory.

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    'In this useful volume, anthropologist Shea … fills an important niche by providing the first multi-period survey of Near Eastern stone tool typology and technology.'

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    '… an excellent resource and one that certainly fills a long-standing gap in the literature for the Levant. Shea's volume on Levantine stone tools should be on every stone artifact researcher's bookshelf and also would serve as an excellent resource for a course on lithics.'

    Deborah I. Olszewski Source: PaleoAnthropology

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    • 2 - Lithics Basics
      pp 17-46
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