Lithic Technology: Making and Using Stone Tools

Description

Editor: Swanson, Earl

Publisher: Mouton Publishers (distributed by Aldine)

Pub Date: 1975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, and hand-written on ffep.  One small chip in inside front hinge.  Numerous chips to board edges.  All corners, spine head and spine foot worn.  Without dust jacket (as issued?).  Pencil markings throughout.

Notes: Originally published in the Netherlands.  The craft of flintworking is almost as old as human time, but, with a few exceptions, it was lost as humans advanced into civilizations.  In the 1950’s François Bordes  (1919-1981) and Don Crabtree (1912-1980), working independently, began the revival of flintworking as an archaeological tool.  “One of the benefits of modern lithic technology has been the realization that the same tool type has been made by different techniques in different geographic areas as in the case of the Clovis point in North America.”  (From the Introduction)