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Title: Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods
Condition: New
EAN: 9781789698695
ISBN: 9781789698695
Publisher: Archaeopress
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 22/04/2021
Item Height: 290mm
Item Length: 205mm
Item Weight: 394g
Author: Torben Bjarke Ballin
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1789698693
Description: A system for the hierarchical Classification of Lithic Artefacts from the British Late Glacial and Holocene Periods is offered in this book. It is hoped that it may find use as a guide book for archaeology students, museum staff, non-specialist archaeologists, local archaeology groups and lay enthusiasts. To allow the individual categories of lithic objects to be classified and characterised in detail, it was necessary to first define a number of descriptive terms, which forms the first part of this guide. The main part of the book is the lithic classification section, which offers definitions of the individual formal debitage, core and tool types. The basic questions asked are: what defines Object X as a tool and not a piece of debitage or a core; what defines a microlith as a microlith and not a knife or a piercer; and what defines a specific implement as a scalene triangle and not an isosceles one? As shown in the book, there are disagreements within the lithics community as to the specific definition of some types, demonstrating the need for all lithics reports to define which typological framework they are based on.

The eBook edition of this publication is available in Open Access, supported by Historic Environment Scotland.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Release Year: 2021

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