Use-Wear and Residue Analysis in Archaeology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Use–Wear and Residue Analysis in Archeology

   • Nuno Bicho, João Marreiros, Juan F. Gibaja

   Pages 1-4

3. Macro and Micro Evidences from the Past: The State of the Art of Archeological Use-Wear Studies

   • João Marreiros, Niccollò Mazzucco, Juan F. Gibaja, Nuno Bicho

   Pages 5-26

4. Ethnoarchaeology and Functional Analysis

   • J. González-Urquijo, S. Beyries, J.J. Ibáñez

   Pages 27-40

5. Use-Wear Analysis on Flint Tools. Beyond the Methodological Issues

   • Juan F. Gibaja, Bernard Gassin

   Pages 41-58

6. Use-wear Analysis of Nonflint Lithic Raw Materials: The Cases of Quartz/Quartzite and Obsidian

   • I. Clemente Conte, T. Lazuén Fernández, L. Astruc, A. C. Rodríguez Rodríguez

   Pages 59-81

7. Keys to the Identification of Prehension and Hafting Traces

   • Veerle Rots

   Pages 83-104

8. Current Analytical Frameworks for Studies of Use–Wear on Ground Stone Tools

   • Laure Dubreuil, Daniel Savage, Selina Delgado-Raack, Hugues Plisson, Birgitta Stephenson, Ignacio de la Torre

   Pages 105-158

9. Use-Wear Methodology on the Analysis of Osseous Industries

   • Marina Almeida Évora

   Pages 159-170

10. Traceology on Metal. Use-Wear Marks on Copper-Based Tools and Weapons

    • Carmen Gutiérrez Sáez, Ignacio Martín Lerma

    Pages 171-188

11. Pottery Use-Alteration Analysis

    • James M. Skibo

    Pages 189-198

12. About Small Things and Bigger Pictures: An Introduction to the Morphological Identification of Micro-residues on Stone Tools

    • Geeske H. J. Langejans, Marlize Lombard

    Pages 199-219

13. Back Matter

    Pages 221-223

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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.

• Advantages of functional analysis
• Archaeological method and theory
• Cultural reconstruction through use-wear analysis
• History of Traceology
• Modern quantitative methods in use-wear analysis
• Prehistoric tools and technology

• Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

  João Manuel Marreiros, Nuno Ferreira Bicho

• Institució Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona, Spain

  Juan F. Gibaja Bao

João Marreiros is an archaeologist working as a post-doctoral researcher (FCT-grant) in the Interdisciplinary Center of Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICARhEB), Universidade do Algarve (Portugal) and in the Departamento de Arqueología y Antropología de la Instituición Milà I Fontanals, del Consejo Superior de Investigacionres CIentíficas (CSIC, Catalonia). He’s research focuses stone tools technology and functionality from the Early Upper Paleolithic in Western Europe, particularly on techno-typological and use-wear analysis of lithic tools from the Early Upper Paleolithic industries from Iberian Peninsula with special interest in human ecological behavior and the first evidences of Anatomical Modern Humans industries in this region. He, in collaboration with the other two editors, organized the International Conference on Use-Wear analysis 2012, held in Faro (Portugal).

Juan Gibaja received his PhD in Archaeology & Prehistory from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in 2002. From 2006-2011 he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Universidade do Algarve (Portugal) funded by Fundação para a CIência e Tecnologia (FCT). Currently, since 2011, he is an Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Departamento de Arqueología y Antropología de la Instituición Milà I Fontanals, del Consejo Superior de Investigacionres CIentíficas (CSIC). During the last decade, he headed several research projects focus on lithic use-wear analysis. His research focuses on the key transition phases from Late and Early Prehistory: the transition between the last Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans and the transition from the last hunter-gatherers from the Mesolithic to the first farmers of the Neolithic in the Occidental Mediterranean.

Nuno Bicho received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University in 1992. He is currently an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. He was Deanbetween 1998 and 2001 and 2005-2007. In addition, Bicho is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center of Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour at the University of Algarve. He specializes in Paleolithic ecodynamics and his research focused on prehistoric costal hunter-gatherers of southern Iberia for the last two decades. More recently he has also developed research on the Mesolithic of the Tagus Valley and on Middle Stone Age of Mozambique.

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