When Is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23680010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wallace Karl Hutchings |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 3-12 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer Netherlands (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-94-017-7602-8_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2483575926 |
| ISBN | 9789401776028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 56 |
Biology · Data science · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Forensic engineering · Identification (biology) · Inference · Reliability (semiconductor) · Rigour · Risk analysis (engineering) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Algunas consideraciones acerca de las nociones de cabezal lítico y punta de proyectil y propuesta de denominación alternativa como grupo tipológico
Testing for poisoned arrows in the Middle Stone Age
Summary and Conclusions
Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysis and Fracture Propagation Velocity
Where are the Immigrants? Questions about the Demographic Underpinnings of Late Pleistocene Cultural Changes in Western Europe
Finding the Paleoindian spearthrower
Quartz backed tools as arrowheads and hand-cast spearheads
Weapons in transition
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points
Fishtail points from the Pampas of South America
Testing an ethnographic analogy through geometric morphometrics
Levers, Not Springs
In Search of the Origins of Distance Hunting—The Use and Misuse of Tip Cross-sectional Geometry of Wooden Spears
The existence of archery in Early Bronze Age southern Levant warfare
The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa
Reassessing the Interpretative Potential of Ethnographic Collections for Early Hunting Technologies
Chronological and behavioral contexts of the earliest Middle Stone Age in the Gademotta Formation, Main Ethiopian Rift
Przykłady strategii produkcji i użytkowania paleolitycznych oraz mezolitycznych narzędzi krzemiennych
Edge Damage on 500-Thousand-Year-Old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa
Technology and Function of Middle Stone Age Points. Insights from a Combined Approach at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa
Thirty Years of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age Osseous Points. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives
The origins and early elaboration of projectile technology
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance V
Use-Trace Epistemology and the Logic of Inference
No evidence of bowhunting in Magdalenian antler points
The Mid-Holocene bifacial projectile points from Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt
The effect of edge serration on the performance of stone-tip projectiles
Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician points were used primarily as hunting weapons
The Evolution of the Human Capacity for “Killing at a Distance”
Material Culture at Rodgers Shelter
Stone tool function at the paleolithic sites of Starosele and Buran Kaya III, Crimea
The Emergence of Modern Humans
The Impact of Projectile Weaponry on Late Pleistocene Hominin Evolution
Microwear Analysis of Some Clovis and Experimental Chipped Stone Tools
Projectile Technologies of the African MSA
“Arms Too Short to Box with God”
Middle Paleolithic Spear Point Technology
Pointes ou outils triangulaires ? Données fonctionnelles dans le Moustérien levantin [suivi des] Commentaires de J. Shea, A. Marks, J-M Geneste et de la réponse des auteurs
Neandertals, competition, and the origin of modern human behavior in the Levant
Hunter‐gatherers
Wear Traces and Projectile Impact
Getting to the point
Recovery of Mammalian DNA from Middle Paleolithic Stone Tools
A Complete Atlatl Dart from Pershing County, Nevada
A Further Note on Mousterian Spear Points
Experiments with Spears and Arrows on Animal Targets
Mousterian Projectile Points—Reply to Shea
More on Hafted Projectile Points in the Mousterian
Were There Hafted Projectile Points in the Mousterian
Single carcass of Mammuthus primigenius with lithic artifacts in the Upper Pleistocene of northern Italy
Measuring use-related fracture velocity in lithic armatures to identify spears, javelins, darts, and arrows
The origins of lithic projectile point technology
Macro and Micro Wear Traces on Lithic Projectile Points
Assessing the macrofracture method for identifying Stone Age hunting weaponry
Stone tools for the hunt
Experimental use and quantitative performance analysis of triangular flakes (Levallois points) used as arrowheads
Experimentation in the Formation of Edge Damage
Spear Points from the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
The Still Bay points of Blombos Cave (South Africa)
Experimental Tests of Middle Palaeolithic Spear Points Using a Calibrated Crossbow
Hunting with Howiesons Poort segments
A new Palaeolithic discovery
Breakage Patterns of Central Illinois Woodland Projectile Points
Hunting strategies in the Late Glacial of northern Europe
The Middle Paleolithic of the East Mediterranean Levant
Lithic Use-Wear Evidence for Hunting by Neandertals and Early Modern Humans from the Levantine Mousterian
The revolution that wasn't
Prehensile Wear on Flint Tools
Hunters at Hengistbury
Towards an understanding of hafting
A Levallois point embedded in the vertebra of a wild ass (Equus africanus)
Stones and Shafts Redux
Arrowheads and Atlatl Darts
Fossil Bison and Artifacts From an Early Altithermal Period Arroyo Trap in Wyoming
Probable Use of Stone Projectile Points
The Origin and Authenticity of an Atlatl and an Atlatl Dart from Lassen County, California
A Spear Thrower from Oklahoma
Projectile Points
Addressing Prehistoric Hunting Practices Through Stone Tool Analysis
The Weights of Chipped Stone Points
Homo sapiensIs asHomo sapiensWas
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |