Lithic technology : making and using stone tools / editor, Earl Swanson.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Earl H. Swanson -- Lithic reduction sequences : a glossary and discussion / Bruce A. Bradley -- Lithic technology as a means of processual inference / Michael B. Collins -- Idiosyncratic behavior in chipping style : some hypotheses and preliminary analysis / Joel Gunn -- Graph theoretic analysis of lithic tools from northern Chile / L. Lewis Johnson -- "Punch techinque" and upper Palaeothic blades / M. H. Newcomer -- Part two : Experimental analysis of toolmaking -- Comments on lithic technology and experimental archaeology / Don E. Crabtree -- The experimental study of bipolar flakes / Hiroaki Kobayashi -- Remarks on fragments with larguette fractures / M. Lenoir -- Fractures for the archaeologist / Barbara A. Purdy -- Part three : Application of analysis to archaeology -- The trimmed-core tradition on Asiatic-American contacts / Don W. Dragoo -- McKean and Little Lake technology : a problem in projectile point typology in the Great Basin of North America / James P. Green -- Toolmaking and tool use among the preceramic peoples of Panama / Anthony J. Ranere -- A study of cuts, grooves, and other marks on recent and fossil bone : II Weathering cracks, fractures, splinters, and other similar natural phenomena / George J. Miller -- Part four : discussion -- Comments / Joffre Coe and Jeremiah Epstein -- Replies / James P. Green, Joel Gunn, L. Lewis Johnson, Hiraoki Kobayashi, M. H. Newcomer, Barbara A. Purdy.