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Ref ID: 23991
Ref Type: Book Section
Authors: Forestier, Hubert
Title: Concept and method in lithic production during Lapita period in New Caledonia: a technological analysis
Date: 1999
Source: Le Pacifique de 5000 à 2000 avant le présent
Place of Publication: Paris
Publisher: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Abstract: Sites which have been discovered in New Caledonia show that stone flake production does occur along with a ceramic activity dated about 2500 or 3000 B. P. At the present time, technological analyses are increasingly framed within a systemic approach of operational chains (chaînes opératoires). This dynamic approach includes the analysis of geometric concepts in the core and a "diacritique" or a technological reading of the blanks. Does core treatment proceed from a volumetric surface conception or from a volume conception?
Date Created: 11/8/2006
Editors: Galipaud, Jean-Christophe
Lilley, Ian
Page Start: 345
Page End: 361