Author: David Henry Keller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Folsom Flint
Author: David Henry Keller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Folsom Technology and Lifeways
Author: John E Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315428318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume is an extensive collection of chapters discussing Folsom artifacts and sites, as well as innovative experiments undertaken to understand Folsom technology and lifeways. Public and private collections of Folsom artifacts were brought together with professional and amateur lithic analysts and knappers in an attempt to determine how the ancient stone tools were made and used. In addition, Folsom Technology and Lifeways summarizes interaction among knappers and analysts, and the attempts to replicate specific artifact types represented. It is a unique volume in that it examines the variation present in technology and behavior across a wide range of Folsom localities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315428318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume is an extensive collection of chapters discussing Folsom artifacts and sites, as well as innovative experiments undertaken to understand Folsom technology and lifeways. Public and private collections of Folsom artifacts were brought together with professional and amateur lithic analysts and knappers in an attempt to determine how the ancient stone tools were made and used. In addition, Folsom Technology and Lifeways summarizes interaction among knappers and analysts, and the attempts to replicate specific artifact types represented. It is a unique volume in that it examines the variation present in technology and behavior across a wide range of Folsom localities.
Story in Stone
Author: D. C. Waldorf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arrowheads
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arrowheads
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
American Flintknappers
Author: John C. Whittaker
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292757891
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
“An important resource for students of modern replication studies . . . Of interest to anyone studying folk technologies in general.” ―The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Making arrowheads, blades, and other stone tools was once a survival skill and is still a craft practiced by thousands of flintknappers around the world. In the United States, knappers gather at regional “knap-ins” to socialize, exchange ideas and material, buy and sell both equipment and knapped art, and make stone tools in the company of others. In between these gatherings, the knapping community stays connected through newsletters and the Internet. In this book, avid knapper and professional anthropologist John Whittaker offers an insider’s view of the knapping community. He explores why stone tools attract modern people and what making them means to those who pursue this art. He describes how new members are incorporated into the knapping community, how novices learn the techniques of knapping and find their roles within the group, how the community is structured, and how ethics, rules, and beliefs about knapping are developed and transmitted. He also explains how the practice of knapping relates to professional archaeology, the trade in modern replicas of stone tools, and the forgery of artifacts. Whittaker's book thus documents a fascinating subculture of American life and introduces the wider public to an ancient and still rewarding craft. “This is a superb book, authored by one of the only people with both the anthropological background and the connections in the world of contemporary flintknapping to write it. It really is unlike any work I’m aware of in lithics studies.” —Michael Stafford, Director, Cranbrook Institute of Science
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292757891
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
“An important resource for students of modern replication studies . . . Of interest to anyone studying folk technologies in general.” ―The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Making arrowheads, blades, and other stone tools was once a survival skill and is still a craft practiced by thousands of flintknappers around the world. In the United States, knappers gather at regional “knap-ins” to socialize, exchange ideas and material, buy and sell both equipment and knapped art, and make stone tools in the company of others. In between these gatherings, the knapping community stays connected through newsletters and the Internet. In this book, avid knapper and professional anthropologist John Whittaker offers an insider’s view of the knapping community. He explores why stone tools attract modern people and what making them means to those who pursue this art. He describes how new members are incorporated into the knapping community, how novices learn the techniques of knapping and find their roles within the group, how the community is structured, and how ethics, rules, and beliefs about knapping are developed and transmitted. He also explains how the practice of knapping relates to professional archaeology, the trade in modern replicas of stone tools, and the forgery of artifacts. Whittaker's book thus documents a fascinating subculture of American life and introduces the wider public to an ancient and still rewarding craft. “This is a superb book, authored by one of the only people with both the anthropological background and the connections in the world of contemporary flintknapping to write it. It really is unlike any work I’m aware of in lithics studies.” —Michael Stafford, Director, Cranbrook Institute of Science
Short Story Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Folsom Lithic Technology
Author: Daniel S. Amick
Publisher: Arceolgical Series; 12
ISBN: 9781879621268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Folsom lithic technology is associated with hunter-gatherer groups who inhabited the terminal Pleistocene grasslands of west-central North America. Archaeologists from that region--with two outliers from Texas and Argentina--explore variation in the chipped stone technology from several perspectives and at different scales, illustrating and expanding on the diversity of current models used to account for structure and variation. Their work is in progress so their reports may help design further research. The 11 studies are not indexed. Paper edition (unseen), $35.00Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Arceolgical Series; 12
ISBN: 9781879621268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Folsom lithic technology is associated with hunter-gatherer groups who inhabited the terminal Pleistocene grasslands of west-central North America. Archaeologists from that region--with two outliers from Texas and Argentina--explore variation in the chipped stone technology from several perspectives and at different scales, illustrating and expanding on the diversity of current models used to account for structure and variation. Their work is in progress so their reports may help design further research. The 11 studies are not indexed. Paper edition (unseen), $35.00Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Shadows on the Trail
Author: John Bradford Branney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612961910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Shadows on the Trail takes place on the plains and mountains of Texas and Colorado at the end of the Ice Age, a time of escalating temperatures, melting glaciers, and large mammal extinctions. It was a time when small bands of humans fought to survive in a violent and unpredictable world. This is a tale of three prehistoric tribes whose paths collide, culminating into an emotional thriller filled with the devastating forces of nature, predatory animals, and human emotion. The seed for Shadows on the Trail sprouted on an early summer morning in 2010 on a northern Colorado ranch where the author found an Ice Age stone tool made from a red and gray striped rock from a prehistoric rock quarry from the Panhandle of Texas. How did this stone tool end up in a prehistoric campsite in northern Colorado? Who made it? What was he or she like? What happened on its journey from Texas to northern Colorado? Since it was impossible to ask the prehistoric maker of the stone tool these questions, the author wrote his version of this remarkable journey.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612961910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Shadows on the Trail takes place on the plains and mountains of Texas and Colorado at the end of the Ice Age, a time of escalating temperatures, melting glaciers, and large mammal extinctions. It was a time when small bands of humans fought to survive in a violent and unpredictable world. This is a tale of three prehistoric tribes whose paths collide, culminating into an emotional thriller filled with the devastating forces of nature, predatory animals, and human emotion. The seed for Shadows on the Trail sprouted on an early summer morning in 2010 on a northern Colorado ranch where the author found an Ice Age stone tool made from a red and gray striped rock from a prehistoric rock quarry from the Panhandle of Texas. How did this stone tool end up in a prehistoric campsite in northern Colorado? Who made it? What was he or she like? What happened on its journey from Texas to northern Colorado? Since it was impossible to ask the prehistoric maker of the stone tool these questions, the author wrote his version of this remarkable journey.
Short Story Index: 1969-1973
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Art of Flint Knapping
Author: D. C. Waldorf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flintknapping
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Covers the basics of flint knapping, such as tools, raw materials, and flaking techniques.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flintknapping
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Covers the basics of flint knapping, such as tools, raw materials, and flaking techniques.
Arkham House Books
Author: Leon Nielsen
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603227
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1937, promising Wisconsin writer August Derleth decided to publish a collection of the stories of his recently deceased friend, H. P. Lovecraft. After two years of failed attempts, Derleth and another Lovecraft fan, Donald Wandrei, published the collection themselves under the name of Arkham. In the years that followed, Arkham House published the works of many of the foremost American and British writers of weird fiction, including Basil Copper, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. Arkham published Ray Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947. The work begins with a history of the house and biography of August Derleth; it also includes a chapter on H. P. Lovecraft's connection to Arkham. The main body of the text consists of chronologically listed descriptions and current values of the more than 230 titles published by Arkham House and its two imprints, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee. These entries detail editions, reprints, special points, restoration, care, buying and selling, investment, and future trends. Other features include alphabetical indeces of titles and authors, lists of scarcity and value ranking, a list of annual stock lists and catalogs, and a bibliography of reference literature. The book is illustrated throughout with dust jacket reproductions and photographs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476603227
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1937, promising Wisconsin writer August Derleth decided to publish a collection of the stories of his recently deceased friend, H. P. Lovecraft. After two years of failed attempts, Derleth and another Lovecraft fan, Donald Wandrei, published the collection themselves under the name of Arkham. In the years that followed, Arkham House published the works of many of the foremost American and British writers of weird fiction, including Basil Copper, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. Arkham published Ray Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947. The work begins with a history of the house and biography of August Derleth; it also includes a chapter on H. P. Lovecraft's connection to Arkham. The main body of the text consists of chronologically listed descriptions and current values of the more than 230 titles published by Arkham House and its two imprints, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee. These entries detail editions, reprints, special points, restoration, care, buying and selling, investment, and future trends. Other features include alphabetical indeces of titles and authors, lists of scarcity and value ranking, a list of annual stock lists and catalogs, and a bibliography of reference literature. The book is illustrated throughout with dust jacket reproductions and photographs.