Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology [Hardcover]

This book is designed to act as a readily accessible guide to different methods and techniques of use-wear and residue analysis and therefore includes a wide range of different and complementary essential topics: experimental tests, observation and record methods and techniques and the interpretation of a diversity of tool types and worked raw materials.?The onset of use-wear studies was marked by the development of theory, method and techniques in order to infer prehistoric tools functionality and, therefore, understand human technological, social and cultural behavior. The last decade of functional studies, use-wear and residue analysis have been aimed at the observation, recording and interpretation of different activities and worked materials found on archaeological tools made on different types of organic and non-organic materials. This international group of contributions will be fundamental for all researchers and students of the discipline.

Chapter 1: Use-wear and residue analysis in archaeology Nuno Bicho, Jo?o Marreiros and Juan Gibaja.- Chapter 2: Macro and micro evidences from the past: The state of the art of archaeological use-wear studies Jo?o Marreiros, Niccol? Mazzucco, Juan Gibaja and Nuno Bicho.- Chapter 3: Ethnoarchaeology and functional analysis Jesus Emilio Gonz?lez, Sylvie Beyries and Juan Jos? Ib??ez.- Chapter 4: Use-wear analysis on flint tools. Beyond the methodological issues Juan Gibaja and Bernard Gassin.-?Chapter 5: Use-wear analysis of non-flint lithic raw materials: the cases of quartz/quartzite and obsidian Ignacio Clemente-Conte, Tal?a Lazu?n Fern?ndez, Laurence Astruc and Am?lia Rodriguez.- Chapter 6:?Keys to the identification of prehension and hafting traces Veerle Rots.- Chapter 7:?Current Analytical Frameworks for Studies of Use-Wear on Ground Stone Tools Laure Dubreuil,