ISBN:
9780855751425
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
994.01
Schlagwort(e):
Bone implements
;
Aboriginal Australians Implements
;
Outils d'os - Australie
;
Australiens (Aborigènes) - Instruments
;
Aboriginal Australians - Implements
;
Antiquities
;
Bone implements
;
Australia Antiquities
;
Australie - Antiquités
;
Australia
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Endorsements -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Why study bone and tooth artefacts? -- Introduction -- A brief overview of bone and tooth artefacts through deep time -- A historical overview of Australian bone and tooth artefact finds -- What types of materials are worked? -- Products of Australia: tools and ornaments -- What is in this book -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 2: Bone tool analysis: Identifying materials and production processes -- Introduction -- Archaeozoology and osseous tool analysis -- Undertaking a new analysis -- Raw material properties -- Identifying osseous (or keratin) artefacts -- Types of bone- and tooth-working -- Wear and damage from use -- Lying on the ground: biting, gnawing, and weathering -- While in the ground -- During excavation and analysis -- Osseous artefact studies to date -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 3: Attributes in describing tool types -- Introduction -- Terms for describing tools -- Identifying raw material -- Active edge -- Hafted or handheld? -- Orientation -- Cross-section -- Microtraces: traces from manufacturing, use, and taphonomic processes -- Defining 'types' -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 4: Attributes in describing ornament types -- Introduction -- Terms for describing ornamentation -- Raw material and shape -- Orientation and metrics -- Manufacturing traces -- Attachment and use traces -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 5: Tools -- Introduction -- Defining types -- Awls -- Burnishers -- Ceremonial tools -- Charms -- Combs -- Containers -- Death Pointers -- Drills -- Eating utensils -- Fans and fly-flicks -- Fighting tools -- Fishhooks -- Groovers/smoothing boards -- Handles -- Harpoons -- Housing -- Knives -- Medical or surgical tools -- Murder weapons -- Musical instruments -- Needles -- Pins or fasteners.
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