Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone - IRIT
Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone - IRIT
Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone - IRIT
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List o f illustration s<br />
Fig. 1 Raw materials<br />
Fig. 2 Knapping suitability tests<br />
Fig. 3 Raw material procurement strategies<br />
Fig. 4 Knapping techniques<br />
Fig. 5 Main descriptive terms for flakes<br />
Fig. 6 Large blade with multiple breaks<br />
Fig. 7 Experimental knapping accidents<br />
Fig. 8 Bifacial shaping <strong>of</strong> an arrowhead<br />
Fig. 9 Blade debitage carried out on a core with a single striking platform<br />
Fig. 10 Blade debitage carried out on a core with two opposite striking platforms<br />
Fig. 11 Bifacial <strong>and</strong> bilateral equilibrium planes <strong>of</strong> an h<strong>and</strong>axe<br />
Fig. 12 Various examples <strong>of</strong> bifacial shaping<br />
Fig. 13 Example <strong>of</strong> bifacial shaping<br />
Fig. 14 Bifacial-shaping flakes<br />
Fig. 15 Point <strong>of</strong> balance or point <strong>of</strong> gravity (point G) in polyhedral <strong>and</strong> spheroidal shapin:<br />
Fig. 16 Polyhedral <strong>and</strong> spheroidal shaping<br />
Fig. 17 Trihedral shaping<br />
Fig. 18 Preforms<br />
Fig. 19 Phonolite cleaver<br />
Fig. 20 Main descriptive terms for cores<br />
Fig. 21 Relatively simple debitage<br />
Fig. 22 Volumetric representation <strong>of</strong> two Levallois debitage methods<br />
Fig. 23 Levallois debitage <strong>of</strong> a preferential flake<br />
Fig. 24 Recurrent centripetal Levallois debitage<br />
Fig. 25 Debitage <strong>of</strong> a Levallois point<br />
Fig. 26 Various examples <strong>of</strong> Levallois products<br />
Fig. 27 Debitage <strong>of</strong> a Kombewa flake<br />
Fig. 28 Phonolite cleaver on a Kombewa flake<br />
Fig. 29 Various types <strong>of</strong> blade-cores produced by percussion<br />
Fig. 30 Experimental blade <strong>and</strong> bladelet debitage positions<br />
Fig. 31 Pressure debitage <strong>of</strong> blades (or bladelets), different types <strong>of</strong> cores<br />
Fig. 32 The Yubetsu method<br />
Fig. 33 Microburin blow technique<br />
Fig. 34 Various examples <strong>of</strong> special techniques<br />
Fig. 35 Thermal damage<br />
Fig. 36 Refitting<br />
Fig. 37 Acheulean h<strong>and</strong>axe<br />
Fig. 38 Various examples <strong>of</strong> debitage products<br />
Fig. 39 Pressure-flaked bladelet-core, subsequently percussion-flaked<br />
Fig. 40 Refitting<br />
Fig. 41 Examples <strong>of</strong> orientation<br />
Fig. 42 Views used in lithic illustration (French system)<br />
Fig. 43 Two layouts <strong>of</strong> views. 1: French system. 2 : American system<br />
Fig. 44 Different ways <strong>of</strong> describing the volume <strong>of</strong> an object<br />
Fig. 45 The stages involved in the drawing process<br />
Fig. 46 Tracing the outline <strong>and</strong> the arrises<br />
Fig. 47 Uncompleted laurel leaf<br />
Fig. 48 Graphical treatment <strong>of</strong> various raw materials<br />
Fig. 49 Graphical rendering <strong>of</strong> the texture <strong>of</strong> various materials<br />
Fig. 50 Large convex Mousterian sidescraper on a frost-fractured flake<br />
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