Les articles rassemblés ici sont le texte des présentations données lors d’une réunion sur les industries lithiques organisée à l’Université de York, en automne 2007. Cette réunion avait permis d’explorer les différentes manières d’aborder l’analyse et l’interprétation des industries lithiques dans un large éventail de contextes.
Sommaire
AFRICA
Algeria
Techno-economy of Iberomaurusian Lithic Assemblages. New data from Courbet-Marine (north-eastern littoral of Algiers) / Latifa Sari
Mali
Stone Bracelet Production in Mali / Anne Garin Carmagnani and Yvan Pailler
ASIA
China
The Stone Tool Industry of Hac Sa, Macau, China / Vin Davis and Roy Sit Kai Sin
Stone Tool Production-Distribution Systems at Huizui, China / Anne Ford
Production of Stone Spades and Emergence of the First State in the Yiluo region, China / Li Liu, Xingcan Chen and John Webb
The Neolithic Stone Implements of China : a review / Zhang Chi
Raw materials, production and distribution of Xuejiagang stone tools / Zhuang Lina
India
The Prehistoric Axe Factory at Sanganakallu-Kupgal (Bellary District), Southern India / Roberto Risch, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia, David Gómez-Gras, Ravi Korisettar and Dorian Fuller
Turkey
The Challenge of Characterising Large Assemblages of Exotic Materials : a case study of the obsidian from Domuztepe, SE Turkey / Elizabeth Healey and Stuart Campbell
Turkmenistan
Veneration and Spiritual Pleading through Stone : observations and musings on current practice in rural Turkmenistan / Glenys McLaren
EUROPE
France
Axe Production and Exchange in the Seine Valley (France) / François Giligny, Françoise Bostyn, Jérémie Couderc, Nicolas le Maux, Harold Lethrosne, Adrienne Lo Carmine and Cécile Riquier
The Functional and Symbolic Value of Grinding Stone Tools from the Late Bandkeramik of North-Western Europe / Caroline Hamon
The Role of Stone in Neolithic Monumental Art : case studies and methods of representation in Ireland and Brittany / Guillaume Robin and Serge Cassen
Ireland
’They wrought almost any material that came in their way’ : Mesolithic Flint Alternatives in the West of Ireland / Killian Driscoll
Exploring the Chaîne Opératoires in Irish Quartz Lithic Traditions : Current Research / Killian Driscoll
Bits and Pieces : early Bronze Age stone bracers from Ireland / Fiona Roe and Ann Woodward
Netherlands
The use of exotic flint and the neolithisation of the Lower Rhine Basin (NL) / Annelou van Gijn
Spain
Underground Prehistoric Mining in Europe / Salvador Domínguez Bella
UK
Biographies of Stone and Landscape : Lithic Scatters / Clive Jonathon Bond
Life Amongst the Rubbish : Middening and Conspicuous Consumption at Durrington Walls / Ben Chan
Flint and Tuff in Prehistoric Cumbria / P.J. Cherry
An Asymmetrical Trade : Trade in the Exotic and Our Understanding of Axes and Early Neolithic Exchange / Tom Clare
The Fire in The Flint : Arrowhead Production and Heat Treatment / Diana Coles
Everybody Must Get Stones / Timothy Darvill
From Implement to Outcrop : a model for identifying implement source rock at outcrop / Amy Davis, Vin Davis and Mik Markham
Neolithic Ground Axe-heads and Monuments in Wessex / David Field
Aspects of the Petrology and Geochemistry of Greenstones : with special reference to SW England and Wales / P.A. Floyd
Ceremony and Carpentry ? Neolithic Stone Axeheads in an East Yorkshire (UK) Lowland Landscape / Peter Halkon
Cache and Carry : lithic technology and Mesolithic mobility / Paul R. Preston
’Durable Residues’ : Addressing the use of microwear, a case study from March Hill / Ivan Briz y Godino, Myrian Álvarez, Penny Spikins and Andrew Needham
Graig Lwyd (Group VII) lithic assemblages from the excavations at Parc Bryn Cegin, Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales - analysis and interpretation / J. Ll. W. Williams and Jane Kenney
Erratics and re-cycled stone : scholarly irrelevancies or fundamental utilities to lithic studies in prehistoric Britain and beyond ? / C. Stephen Briggs
NORTH AMERICA
Mexico
A Study of Olmec Serpentinite : exchange, production, distribution, and consumption during the Early and Middle Formative period in Mesoamerica / Olaf Jaime-Riverón, Dolores Tenorio Castilleros, Thomas Calligaro and Juan Carlos Cruz Ocampo
Voir le détail sur le site de la revue
MAIS l’accès aux articles est payant (£39.50 pour les abonnements individuels)