Ecology of a tool : the ground stone axes of Irian Jaya (Indonesia) /
New Guinea, and especially Papua New Guinea, is the last country in the world where ethnologists were able to closely observe, film and photograph the wholemanufacturing chaînes opératoires of polished stone felling tools, from quarry extraction to finished tool use. Research on the polished blade...
| Auteurs principaux: | , |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , |
| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais français |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2020.
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| Édition: | Revised and expanded edition. |
| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv138wsr5 |
Table des matières:
- 1. Ground stone blades as means of social and technical reproduction
- 2. The Yeleme quarries (Kp. Paniai) et the ground stone blades of Central Irian Jaya
- 3. Material and social techniques of the Dani: black rocks and greenschists
- 4. Adzes of the Eastern Highlands (Kp. Jayawijaya)
- 5. Ormu-Wari and the Lowlands axes
- 6. The ground stone blades of Irian Jaya, a synthesis
- 7. Postface.