Material Perspectives: Stone Tool Use and Material Culture in Papua New Guinea

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Plates
• List of Tables
• Introductory statement
• Section Summaries

• Section 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Background
• Section 2: Environmental, Ethnographic and Archaeological Context
  • 2.1 Environment
  • 2.2 Ethnographic background
  • 2.3 Archaeological context
  • 2.4 Ethnography and stone tools
• Section 3: Material Culture and the Use of Stone Tools
  • 3.1 Raw materials
    • 3.1.1 Stone
    • 3.1.2 Hafts
    • 3.1.3 Wood and bark
    • 3.1.4 Bamboo
    • 3.1.5 Rattan
    • 3.1.6 Feathers and shell
    • 3.1.7 Bone
  • 3.2 Items of material culture
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  • 3.3 Other tasks
  • 3.4 Arrows
  • 3.5 String
  • 3.6 Survival in a prehistoric context
• Section 4: Raw Material, Technology, Storage and Discard
  • 4.1 Raw material
  • 4.2 Raw material procurement
  • 4.3 Hammerstones
  • 4.4 Nodule reduction and technology
  • 4.5 Refrain said when knapping chert
  • 4.6 Selection of flakes for use
  • 4.7 Locations where men work with chert tools
  • 4.8 Use and terminology
  • 4.9 Storage and discard
  • 4.10 Ritual uses of stone
• Section 5: Social and Gender Aspects of Stone Tool Use
  • 5.1 Social aspects
  • 5.2 Gender
  • 5.3 Children
  • 5.4 Ownership of objects
• Section 6: Functional Analysis (Robert Shiel and Karen Hardy)
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Method of analysis
  • 6.3 Sample for analysis
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  • 6.4 Results of the functional analysis
  • 6.5 Analysis of the functional results
  • 6.6 Statistical analysis of use-wear data, with R.S. Shiel
  • 6.7 Ethnographic data
  • 6.8 Users
  • 6.9 Change in edge angles
  • 6.10 Relations between the four phases
  • 6.11 Discussion
• Section 7: Wola Use of Lithics within the Wider Material Context
  • 7.1 Wola use of lithics within the wider material context
  • 7.2 Conclusions

• Appendix 1: The Assemblage
• Appendix 2: Field notes - List of used and bought tools
• Appendix 3: Terminology of chert use
• References
• Acknowledgements

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