A Manual for Neanderthals
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1970
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-74142-3 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-74142-3 (ISBN)
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A study of how flint tools and weapons were made.
The story of humanity’s earliest days on earth has come down to us chiefly in the tools and weapons early hominids shaped from flint. With these tools, they gained ascendancy over less dexterous beasts and began the slow conquest of their environment. Other records, including their very bones, have largely rotted away, but their tools of flint endure.
H. Mewhinney presents A Manual for Neanderthals as “a common-sense, down-to-earth study of how flint tools and weapons were made—or for that matter, can still be made by any descendant of Stone Age man.”
The author first sets the scene with a delightful and informative disquisition on flintflaking and flint-flakers, and then explains clearly and concisely how he and earlier Neanderthals have made flint artifacts, illustrating each step with drawings and photographs.
Archeologists and anthropologists will discover in this book a modest but genuine contribution to their fields, while collectors of Indian relics and people who like to tinker with tools and master unusual skills will find it a surprisingly practical guide to an interesting and ancient art. With patience, and with A Manual for Neanderthals at your side, you too can learn to flake flint.
The story of humanity’s earliest days on earth has come down to us chiefly in the tools and weapons early hominids shaped from flint. With these tools, they gained ascendancy over less dexterous beasts and began the slow conquest of their environment. Other records, including their very bones, have largely rotted away, but their tools of flint endure.
H. Mewhinney presents A Manual for Neanderthals as “a common-sense, down-to-earth study of how flint tools and weapons were made—or for that matter, can still be made by any descendant of Stone Age man.”
The author first sets the scene with a delightful and informative disquisition on flintflaking and flint-flakers, and then explains clearly and concisely how he and earlier Neanderthals have made flint artifacts, illustrating each step with drawings and photographs.
Archeologists and anthropologists will discover in this book a modest but genuine contribution to their fields, while collectors of Indian relics and people who like to tinker with tools and master unusual skills will find it a surprisingly practical guide to an interesting and ancient art. With patience, and with A Manual for Neanderthals at your side, you too can learn to flake flint.
H. Mewhinney (1904–1973) was a newspaper reporter and columnist who wrote the column “Meeting All Comers” for the Houston Post for many years.
Foreword
I. Speech, Fire, and Flint
II. A Synopsis of the Stone Age
III. The Nature of Flint
IV. Percussion Flaking: Blade and Core
V. Pressure Flaking
VI. The Hammer and the Chisel
VII. Fire and Wet Straw
VIII. A Reconsideration of Blades
IX. Barbing and Notching
X. Hammerstone and Cutting Edge
XI. The Absent-minded Beveler
XII. Clovis and Folsom Craftsmanship
XIII. The Legend of Ishi
XIV. Of Craftsmanship and Homicide
XV. Some Beautiful Hypotheses
XVI. A Few Thoughts on Fakes
XVII. Remembering Boucher de Perthes
Reading List
Index
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Handwerk | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-292-74142-1 / 0292741421 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-74142-3 / 9780292741423 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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