Prehistoric Technology; an Experimental Study of the oldest Tools and Artefacts (sic) from traces of Manufacture and Wear

Description

Author: Semenov, S.A. (Sergei Aristarkhovich) (1898-1978)

Publisher: Adams & Dart (Bath, England)

Pub Date: 1970 (Second printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Ex-library.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Without dust jacket.  Library markings on top, bottom, and side text blocks. Library call numbers and  section abbreviation on upper and lower spine.  One approx. 1/2″ white mark (Wite-Out?) on lower front board.  Library card pocket on lower front pastedown, with other markings.  Edge and corner wear to all corners and boards, spine head and foot.  Flap copy pasted to rear end paper.   Only checked out twice, but it shows use.

Notes:  Originally published in Russian in 1957, this edition translated by M.W. Thompson.  Stone and bone tools and weapons, markings and their potential meanings, and how to make the stone tools and weapons.  Lots of illustrations.  Textbook.  Damn that font is small.