Projectile Technology -

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Résumé :
This wide-ranging volume brings together the results of global research on weapon technology, hunting strategies, and technological organization spanning the Middle Paleolithic through the ethnographic present, and the geographical breadth of the five inhabited continents. Integrating archaeological, experimental, and ethnoarchaeological perspectives, the book paints a vibrant picture of the technological know-how, decision-making processes, and organizational logistics associated with hunters armed with spears or arrows. Unlike most works on archaeological subjects, the findings presented here are bound to neither time nor place, but are applicable in any context in which spears, bows, and/or arrows are in use.

Sommaire:
I. Introduction.- 1 ? The History and Development of Projectile Technology Research.- 2 ? Factors Influencing the Use of Stone Projectile Tips: An Ethnographic Perspective.- II. Archaeological Perspectives.- 3 ? Middle Paleolithic Spear Point Technology.- 4 ? The Microwear and Morphology of Microliths from Gleann Mor.- 5 ? Side-Notched and Unnotched Arrowpoints: Assessing Functional Differences.- 6 ? Sinew-Reinforced and Composite Bows: Technology, Function, and Social Implications.- III. Experimental Perspectives.- 7 ? Contributions of Multidisciplinary Experimentation to the Study of Upper Paleolithic Projectile Points.- 8 ? Projectile Points of Bone, Antler, and Stone: Experimental Explorations of Manufacture and Use.- 9 ? Hunting during the Upper Paleolithic: Bow, Spearthrower, or Both?.- 10 ? Self-Barbed Antler Spearpoints and Evidence of Fishing in the Late Upper Paleolithic of Cantabrian Spain.- IV. Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives.- 11 ? Technology and Variation in Arrow Design among the Agta of Northeastern Luzon.- 12 ? Hunting and Multifunctional Use of Bows and Arrows: Ethnoarchaeology of Technological Organization among Pum? Hunters of Venezuela.- 13 ? A Comparison of Kua (Botswana) and Hadza (Tanzania) Bow and Arrow Hunting.- 14 ? Each According to Need and Fashion: Spear and Arrow Use among San Hunters of the Kalahari.- V. Conclusion.- 15 ? Projectile Points: Form, Function, and Design.