Screen LibraryBones : ancient men and modern myths /
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1981. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in archaeology. |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780121000363 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxv, 320 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483213958 1483213951 |
| Index Number: | GN772 |
| CLC: | K861.11 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Part 1: Documenting a long-term archaeological problem: Concepts and observations; Chapter 1. Relics to artifacts and monuments to assemblages: Changing conceptual frameworks; The Relic and Monument Phase; The Artifact and Assemblage Phase; Chapter 2. Middle-range research and the role of actualistic studies; The Paradigm-One's Guide to Describing the World; Theory-One's Guide to Explaining the World. Part II: Middle-range research-In search of methodologyChapter 3. Patterns of bone modifications produced by nonhuman agents; Previous Approaches to Understanding the Significance of Broken and Modified Bone; Skeletal Disarticulation; Tooth Marks; Tooth Marks; Other Sources of Surfi cial Modifications on Bone; Bone Breakage and Destruction by Animals; Modifications by Anatomical Part; Breakage Unrelated to Consumption: Trampling and Bone Manipulation; Bone Modifications and Methodology; Chapter 4. Human modes of bone modification; Previous Approaches to Understanding Broken and Modified Bone. The Control DataDismembering Strategy; Butchering Marks; Cut Marks: Their Form and Placement on Specific Bones; Chopping and Bone Breakage as Butchering Techniques; Gnawing by Humans; Marrow-Bone Breakage; Control Collections; Breakage Related to Other Forms of Bone Processing; Man-to-Man Comparisons, or Alternative Human Behaviors; Comparing Man and Beast; Morphology of Bone Breakage; Summary; Chapter 5. Assemblage composition: Patterns of association stemming from the behavior of man versus that of beast; New World Beginnings-Man as the Agent; African Problems and Assemblage Composition. Other Types of Assemblage VariabilityStudies of Assemblage Composition Caused by Beasts; Observations of Wolves and Their Behavior; Information on Lair Behavior; Information on Kill Behavior and Comparisons; Control Collections of Animal-Structured Assemblages; Summary; Part III: Putting our knowledge to work: Seeking to know the past; Chapter 6. Application: A new look at Olduvai Gorge; Olduvai Gorge, a Challenge to Our Methods; Analysis of Olduvai Fauna; Evaluating the Degree of Destruction Suffered by the Olduvai Assemblages; Assemblage Composition-Olduvai Gorge; Summary. Chapter 7. General conclusionsReferences; Index. |