Technological Analysis on Quartzite Exploitation [Paperback]

Papers from the session (Vol. 39, Session WS15) Technological Analysis on Quartzite Exploitation presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Quartzite et quartzites: aspects p??trographiques, ??conomiques et technologiques des mat??riaux majoritaires du Pal??olithique ancien et moyen du Sud-Ouest de la France (David Colonge and Vincent Mourre); 2) Quartz et quartzite dans les niveaux doccupation OIS 7 et 5 du site de Payre (Sud-est, France): fonction sp??cifique et compl??mentaire? (Marie-H??l??ne Moncel, Arturo de Lombre Hermida and Deniaux Brigitte); 3) Lutilisation du quartzite dans lindustrie moust??rienne de Zabrani (Banat,Roumanie) (Alain Tuffreau, Vasile Boroneant, Emilie Goval, Adina Boroneant, Adrian Dobos, Bertrand Lefevre and Gabi Popescu); 4) The exploitation of quartzite in layer 5 (Mousterian) of Scladina Cave (Wallonia, Belgium): Flexibility and dynamics of concepts of debitage in the Middle Palaeolithic (Kevin Di Modica and Dominique Bonjean); 5) Becov I, A-III-6 - Middle Palaeolithic quartzite assemblage from Central Europe (Andrzej W??sniewski); 6) The quartzite exploitation in a middle pleistocene open air site: Ribeira da Ponte da Pedra (central Portugal) (Sara Cura and Stefano Grimaldi).The papers in this volume take technological approaches to the study of quartzite lithic industries, looking at how quartzite was selected and used as a raw material in relation to flint (often considered the superior material). Essays in French and English.