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  title info:
    title: Technological and functional variability of convergent tools from Nahr Ibrahim, Lebanon
    sub title: behavioral implications for Levantine Mousterian technological organization
  name:
    name part: Dockall, John Edward
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 323 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: alluded to a variety of purposes for these implements,
  abstract: and have long been considered an important portion of the
  abstract: and locality provisioning. Evidence indicates that there was
  abstract: artifact maintenance, repair, and procurement of non-food
  abstract: by hominids, and varying intensities of individual, activity,
  abstract: convergent tool manufacture and use during the Levantine
  abstract: Convergent tools are hallmarks of the Levantine Mousterian
  abstract: convergent tools, while somewhat thicker, were employed in a
  abstract: data are derived from Levantine Mousterian cave sites of
  abstract: design criteria employed by Levantine Mousterian hominids.
  abstract: extractive tasks (associated with procurement or processing
  abstract: implements functioned as multi-purpose components of personal
  abstract: included broader proximal dimensions and distal convergence.
  abstract: including weapon tips. The role of convergent tools in
  abstract: Levallois counterparts. Levantine Mousterian convergent
  abstract: Levantine Mousterian technological organization is explored
  abstract: material, and activity sets. Activity sets were divided into
  abstract: modem humans, archaic hominids or Homo sapiens
  abstract: Mousterian.
  abstract: neanderthalensis. Primary design criteria that were desired
  abstract: not a great degree of behavioral difference associated with
  abstract: of food) and maintenance tasks (attributed to tool or
  abstract: preparation prior to flake removal was critical to achieve
  abstract: ranges of inferred tasks that were performed or anticipated
  abstract: relied upon fracture mechanics of brittle solids and lowpower
  abstract: represents the Zagros Mousterian. The relationship between
  abstract: resources). Functional analysis revealed that convergent
  abstract: similar range of extractive and maintenance tasks as their
  abstract: Skhul, Kebara, Qafzeh, Tabun, Hayonim, and Tor Faraj. A
  abstract: small sample of convergent tools from Shanidar, Iraq
  abstract: some degree related to differences in activity location, the
  abstract: Technological analysis included metric and attribute studies
  abstract: technology. Previous typological and technological analyses
  abstract: technology. Technological and functional variability was to
  abstract: the desired convergent flake shape. Functional analysis
  abstract: these implements from Nahr Ibrahim, Lebanon. Comparative
  abstract: through a detailed technological and functional analysis of
  abstract: through use of the Levallois technique. Non-Levallois
  abstract: to determine techniques of manufacture. The method of core
  abstract: tool manufacture and use is reflected in a set of implement
  abstract: tool uses were similar throughout the Levant, regardless of
  abstract: toolkits and were a significant component of the subsistence
  abstract: use-wear techniques to determine tool motion, worked
  abstract: whether the implements were are attributed to anatomically
  abstract: Width and length were emphasized and thickness was controlled
  note: by John Edward Dockall.
  note: "Major Subject: Anthropology".
  note: Vita.
  note: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158169
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 1997.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 288-322.
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: 97-29185 UMI
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 971105
    record change date: 20260220153642.9
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