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Literature

Here you can find a list of literature resources related to the themes of archaeological wear and residue analysis. These lists are by no means exhaustive, and we welcome any new suggestions for additions that we can make. Please email us at awrana.international@gmail.com if you have any additional resources that you would like to add.

Books
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Van Gijn et al (2020) Pots and Practices: An experimental and microwear approach to Early Iron Age vessel biographies

Pages: 206 pages
Publisher: Sidestone Press (Leiden)
Language: English
Paperback ISBN: 978-9-088907-74-6   
Hardback ISBN: 978-9-088907-75-3

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Lemorini (2010) An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools​

 

Pages: 123 pages

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1407312880

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Odell (2004) Lithic Analysis

 

Pages: 284 pages
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0306480689
ISBN-13: 978-0306480683

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Hurcombe (1992) Use Wear Analysis and Obsidian: Theory, Experiments and Results

 

Pages: 226
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0906090423
ISBN-13: 978-0906090428

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Pogodin et al (2019) Settling Lemya 19.1 in the Upper Konda. From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages.

Pages: 124 pages
Publisher: Alfa-Print Publishing House and Printing House (Yekaterinburg)
Language: Russian
ISBN-13: 978-5-907080-95-9              eLIBRARY.ru ID: 43358174

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Rots (2010) Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools: A Methodology

 

Pages: 304 pages

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Language: English

IISBN-10: 9058678016
ISBN-13: 978-9058678010

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van den Dries (1998) Archaeology and the Application of Artificial Intelligence

 

Pages: 207 pages
Publisher: University of Leiden
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9076368015
ISBN-13: 978-9076368016

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Keeley (1980) Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses: A Microwear Analysis

 

Pages: 266 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226428893
ISBN-13: 978-0226428895

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Kononenko (2011) Experimental and archaeological studies of use-wear and residues on obsidian artefacts from Papua New Guinea

Pages: 244 pages

Publisher: Australian Museum (Sydney)

Language: English

ISSN:1835-4211 

DOI:10.3853/j.1835-4211.21.2011.1559

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Van Gijn (2010) Flint in Focus: The Meaning of Flint in the Neolithic and Bronze Age

 

Pages: 311 pages
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9088900337
ISBN-13: 978-9088900334

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Juel Jensen (1994) Flint Tools Plant Working: Hidden Traces of Stone Age Technology

 

Pages: 276

Publisher: Gazelle
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8772884541
ISBN-13: 978-8772884547

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Hayden (1979) Lithic Use-wear Analysis

 

Pages: 431 pages
Publisher: Academic Press Inc
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123339502
ISBN-13: 978-0123339508

Theses

Caurette (2024) Le travail de la peau durant le Solutréen récent. Approches fonctionnelles de l’équipement lithique et osseux de Combe Saunière (Dordogne), du Cuzoul de Vers (Lot) et de Landry (Dordogne)

 

Pages: 691    
Publisher: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Language: French

Methodologies: Traceology, use-wear analysis

Periods: Upper Palaeolithic, Late Solutrean

Related Topics: Hide-working, Technical tradition, Ethnography

Link: https://theses.fr/2024PA01H029

Halbrucker (2021) Tenacious traces. The impact of burning and patination on microwear traces on experimental and prehistoric stone tools from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Scheldt valley

Pages: 235    
Publisher: Ghent University 
Language: English    
Methodologies: Micro-wear. Experimental Archaeology. Alteration Experiments       
Periods: Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Swifterbant            
Related Topics: Geology, Geochemistry, Lithic technology, Ceramic technology  

Link: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AgTmV5041cSzh4ISHux1jWi2ZMnOoQ?e=d6TwYg

 

Pfleging (2019) On the Foundations of Robotic Use-wear Analysis: Improving Archaeological Methods for Artefact Characterization with Robotics Technology

Pages: 148    
Publisher: ETH Zurich  
Language: English   

Methodologies: Archaeology, Robotics, Use-wear Analysis

Periods: Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Palaeolithic 

Related Topics: Manipulation Tasks, Methodology, Motion Capture, Hide scraping, Spear thrusting

Link: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/403726           

 

Cadalen (2023) Activités artisanales et division des tâches dans une société maya classique. Approche systémique et fonctionnelle de l’outillage lithique de Cancuén (Guatemala)

Pages: 580    
Publisher: Université Côte d’Azur, France 
Language: French 

Methodologies: Flint Tools, Obsidian Tools, Experimentations, Spatial Analysis

Periods: Mesoamerica, Classic Period, Prehispanic

Related Topics: Artizanal activites, Ritual practices, Socio-economic organization

Link: https://hal.science/tel-04686017

Ciofalo (2020) Starchy Foodways: Surveying Indigenous Peoples’ culinary practices prior to the advent of European invasions in the Greater Caribbean

Pages: 237    
Publisher: Leiden University  
Language: English                                  Methodologies: Microbotany, Palaeoethnobotany, Residue Analysis, Starch Analysis                

Periods: Late Ceramic Age (Caribbean), Pre-colonial Americas                             

Related Topics: Ceramics, Cultural niche construction, Malacology, Practice theory                      

Link:https://www.globalacademicpress.com/index.php

 

Vučković (2019) Neolithic economy and macro-lithic tools of the Central Balkans

Pages: 520   
Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 
Language: English                                  Methodologies: Experimental Archaeology, Functional Analysis, Macro-lithic tools, Morphometric Analysis, Petrographic Analysis, Use-wear Analysis 

Periods: Neolithic   

Related Topics: Central Balkans     

Link: https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/669666#page=1

Guibert-Cardin (2022) Comportements socio-economiques au Paléolithique inférieur en Europe. Apport de l’étude tracéologique et techno-morpho-fonctionnelle des outillages lithiques

Pages: 406    
Publisher: Université Côte d’Azur, Nice
Language: French
Methodologies: Traceology, Techno-morpho-functional study, Use-wear Analysis      
Periods: Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene    
Related Topics: Lithic industry, Taphonomy, Europe

Link: https://theses.fr/2022COAZ2017

Weiya (2020) Foodways in early farming societies: microwear and starch grain analysis on experimental and archaeological grinding tools from Central China

Pages: 180   
Publisher: Leiden University  
Language: English                                  Methodologies: Starch Grain Analysis, Use-wear Analysis       

Periods: Neolithic 

Related Topics: Grinding Tools, Foodways   

Link: https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/135949

 

Dickinson (2016) Through a Glass Darkly: Finding Values in Obsidian Stemmed Tools from New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Pages: 427 plus database   
Publisher: University of Leicester   
Language: English     

Methodologies: High magnification microscopy lithic use-wear analysis, PXRF raw-material sourcing, Statistical analysis of artefact morphology   

Periods: 6000 – 3500 BP   

Related Topics: Apprentice, Bright spot, Craft skills, Hafting, Network, Obsidian, Semiotics, Style, Workshop.      

Link: https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Through_a_Glass_Darkly_Finding_Values_in_Obsidian_Stemmed_Tools_from_New_Britain_Papua_New_Guinea/10206536

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