Production and exchange of stone tools: Prehistoric Obsidian in the Aegean

Description

Author: Torrence, Robin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pub Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Lower front corner bumped. Some wear to head and foot of spine.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Upper edges, front and rear, have chips, wear.  Spine foot has wear.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: “..contemporary archaeology views exchange as a form of interaction such that a system of interrelations operates on a regional level.  To reconstruct the process of exchange, it is necessary to identify the network linking hte source with consumers and, more importantly, the exchange partners with each other.  In other words, the data requirements have changed from approximate source to accurate data on source location as well as the spatial distribution of the goods flowing through the exchange system.”  (From the Preface)  What’s the source of that tool and how did it get here?