White Rock Oneota Chipped Stone Tools

Baluch Settlement and Features of Chipped Stone Resulting from Surveying Tepeh Baluch

Tepeh Baluch is located in the northeast of Iran in Khorasan Razavi Province and in the west of Neyshabour Miankouh Plain. Prehistoric studies, especially the Neolithic period of this section of the Iranian Plateau have been less considered compared with the western part. Tepeh Baluch was explored during a short season in the spring and summer of 2011 under the support of Neyshabur University. ...

Rock fragmentation and optimization of drilling tools

In this chapter possibilities of the improvement of drilling tool efficiency on the basis of the analysis of mechanisms of rock destruction and some methods of the information theory are considered. Physical mechanisms of destruction of hard and plastic rocks under different conditions of mechanical loading are reviewed. Some physical effects which allow to improve the efficiency of rock drilli...

Rock Art Tallies: Mathematics on Stone in Western North America

Inorganic raw materials economy and provenance of chipped industry in some stone age sites of northern and central Italy.

An opportunistic and local choice of raw materials is typically attested in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic industries throughout Italy. The quality of the raw material usually affected the flaking technology and quality of the products. In the Upper Paleolithic and the Mesolithic, raw material procurement strategies were more complex. Flint was exploited both locally, in areas where abundant ...

Cijepani litički materijal s ranoneolitičkog nalazišta Zadubravlje Chipped stone assemblage from the Early Neolithic site of Zadubravlje

U radu se donose rezultati litičke analize cijepanih rukotvorina s lokaliteta starčevačke kulture Zadubravlje. Prozivodnja poluproizvoda za izradu alatki (odbojaka, sječiva i pločica) odvijala se na samom lokalitetu, uglavnom na površini, premda je jama 19 vjerojatno bila radni prostor. Ustanovljen je postupak neizravnog odbijanja sječiva. Među alatkama prevladavaju komadići s djelomičnom obrad...