Préhistoire de
la Pierre Taillée, Tome 5
CREP, Meudon, 1999
The edition of « Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone » (volume 5 of the series Préhistoire
de la Pierre Taillée , 1999, C.R.E.P. Editor) is totally out of print. The
authors wished now to propose its free
access to anyone interested in the study of knapped
stones, no matter the time period, and the part of the world they come from.
Conceived in the same way as the first volume of the series was in 1980 under
the direction of Jacques Tixier, this text book aims to propose a method for
analysing lithic assemblages, accompanied with precisely defined descriptive
terms, tranlated in several languages. This method is based on the concept of chaîne opératoire, and follows a
technological approach which is now extended to all technical productions.
The book is made of a first part, with an introduction followed by seven chapters on raw material, knapping, shaping, débitage, retouching, technological reading, and drawing.
A
terminological lexicon with 170
entries forms the second part. Plentifully illustrated (79 fig.),
« Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone » is completed by a multilingual vocabulary of the 170
entry words translated into seven languages (arabic, french, german, greek,
italian, portuguese, spanish). on-line version
Full
translation of volume 4 « Technologie
de la pierre taillée », C.R.E.P., 1995, also on-line.
