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Lithics 'Down Under': Australian Perspectives on Lithic Reduction, Use and Classification.

Publication: Archaeology in Oceania
Publication Date: 01-JUL-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lithics 'Down Under': Australian Perspectives on Lithic Reduction, Use and Classification.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Lithics 'Down Under': Australian Perspectives on Lithic Reduction, Use and Classification Edited by Christopher Clarkson and Lara Lamb. BAR International Series 1408, 2005. ISBN 1-84171851-3, Pp. 125. GBP28.

This volume includes a core of papers from the Australian Archaeological Association's 2001 Annual Conference. The dominant theme is '... the pursuit of new ways of characterizing the effects of manufacturing and subsistence behaviour on stone artifact assemblages ... ' (p. 1); it is mostly about lithic reduction. Shott explains the reduction thesis thus: 'No one ever doubted that stone tools were reduced as they were fashioned,...

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