Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry

Chapter 1 When Is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference

Chapter 2 Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysis and Fracture Propagation Velocity: A Controlled Experiment

Chapter 3 Experiments in Fracture Patterns and Impact Velocity with Replica Hunting Weapons from Japan

Chapter 4 Thirty Years of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age Osseous Points. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives

Chapter 6 Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and Early Holocene European Bone Assemblages and Their Implications for Our Knowledge on the Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology

Chapter 7 Edge Damage on 500-Thousand-Year-Old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: The Combined Effects of Spear Use and Taphonomic Processes

Chapter 8 Projectile Damage and Point Morphometry at the Early Middle Paleolithic Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel): Preliminary Results and Interpretations

Chapter 9 Morpho-Metric Variability of Early Gravettian Tanged “Font-Robert” Points, and Functional Implications

Chapter 10 Early Gravettian Projectile Technology in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula: The Double Backed and Bipointed Bladelets of Vale Boi (Portugal)

Chapter 11 Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools: Functional Investigations of Australian Microliths

Chapter 12 Projectiles and Hafting Technology

Chapter 13 Testing Archaeological Approaches to Determining Past Projectile Delivery Systems Using Ethnographic and Experimental Data

Chapter 14 Penetration, Tissue Damage, and Lethality of Wood- Versus Lithic-Tipped Projectiles

Chapter 15 Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern Iberian Peninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing the Potential Use of Throwing Spears Among Neanderthals

Chapter 16 More to the Point: Developing a Multi-faceted Approach to Investigating the Curation of Magdalenian Osseous Projectile Points

Chapter 17 Survivorship Distributions in Experimental Spear Points: Implications for Tool Design and Assemblage Formation

Chapter 18 Morphological Diversification of Stemmed Projectile Points of Patagonia (Southernmost South America). Assessing Spatial Patterns by Means of Phylogenies and Comparative Methods

Chapter 19 Hunting Technologies During the Howiesons Poort at Sibudu Cave: What They Reveal About Human Cognition in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Between ~65 and 62 ka

Chapter 20 Summary and Conclusions