Prehistoric Technology: Chipped Stone Artifacts

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introducing students to basic methods used in analyzing chipped stone artifacts.

Course description: The course designed to introduce students to theoretical and practical aspects of analyzing chipped stone artifacts. The lecture plan covers: raw material analysis, technological, typological and functional artifact analysis, systematic review and interpretation data analysis.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and oral examination.

Prehistoric Technology: Chipped Stone Artifacts

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introducing students to basic methods used in analyzing chipped stone artifacts.

Course description: The course designed to introduce students to theoretical and practical aspects of analyzing chipped stone artifacts. The lecture plan covers: raw material analysis, technological, typological and functional artifact analysis, systematic review and interpretation data analysis.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• W. Andrefski 1998, Lithics – macroscopic approaches to analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• E. Boeda, J. Pelegrin 1979, Approche technologique du nucleus Levallois a éclat, Etudes Prehistoriques 15, str. 41-48.
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• M. N. Brézillon 1968, La dénomination des objects de pierre taillée, Gallia Préhistoire, supplément 4, CNRS, Paris
• H. L. Dibble 1988, Typological Aspects of Reduction and Intensity of Utilization of Lithic Resources in the French Mousterian, u H. L. Dibble, A. Montet-White (eds.) Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of We
• L. H. Keeley 1980, Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
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• A. Montet White, S. Holen (eds.) 1991, Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers, University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology 19, Lawrence - Kansas
• I. Radovanović 1981, Ranoholocenska kremena industrija sa lokaliteta Padina u Đerdapu, Arheološki institut, Beograd, 13-22 (poglavlje «O istraživanju kamenog kresanog oruđa»)
• R. Schild 1980, Introduction to Dynamic Technological Analysis of Chipped Stone Assemblages, u R. Schild (ed.) Unconventional Archaeology , Wroclaw, str. 57-84
• V. E. Schtchelinski 1994, La fonction des outils gravettiens et épigravettiens. Introduction métodologique, u J. K. Kozlowski, H. Laville, B. Ginter (eds.) Temnata Cave – Excavation in Karlu
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• D. de Sonneville-Bordes, J. Perrot 1954-56, Lexique typologique du Paléolithique supérieur. Outillage lithique, Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Francaise 51: 327-335; 52:
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• R. Torrence 1986, Production and Exchange of Stone Tools, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• J. Whittaker 1994, Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools, University of Texas Press, Austin – Texas