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Résumé :
Chapter 1 Introduction: Lithic Analysis as Cross-Cultural Study Chapter 2 The Use of the Chaine Operatoire Approach in the Upper Paleolithic Period in Sinai Chapter 3 Using Lithic Artifacts to Study Craft Specialiazation in Ancient Societies: The Hopewell Case Chapter 4 Lithic Artifacts from Surveys: A Comparative Evaluation of Recent Evidence from the Southern Aegean Chapter 5 Determining the Source of Lithic Artifacts and Reconstructing Trade in the Ancient World Chapter 6 Chemical Sourcing of Hopewell Bladelets: Implications for Building a Chert Database for Ohio Chapter 7 Stone in an Age of Bronze: Lithics from Bronze Age Contexts in Greece and Iran Chapter 8 Statecraft and State Crafts: A Reconsideration of Mesoamerican Obsidian Industries...

Biographie:
P. Nick Kardulias is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archeology at the College of Wooster. He is the editor of World Systems Theory in Practice (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (University Press of America, 1994), and co-editor of Agean Startegies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringe (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). Richard W. Yerkes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University. He has directed and worked on projects in the United States, Cyprus, Greece, and Hungary....

Sommaire:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Lithic Analysis as Cross-Cultural Study
Chapter 2 The Use of the Chaine Operatoire Approach in the Upper Paleolithic Period in Sinai
Chapter 3 Using Lithic Artifacts to Study Craft Specialiazation in Ancient Societies: The Hopewell Case
Chapter 4 Lithic Artifacts from Surveys: A Comparative Evaluation of Recent Evidence from the Southern Aegean
Chapter 5 Determining the Source of Lithic Artifacts and Reconstructing Trade in the Ancient World
Chapter 6 Chemical Sourcing of Hopewell Bladelets: Implications for Building a Chert Database for Ohio
Chapter 7 Stone in an Age of Bronze: Lithics from Bronze Age Contexts in Greece and Iran
Chapter 8 Statecraft and State Crafts: A Reconsideration of Mesoamerican Obsidian Industries