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This book is in excellent condition, no wear to covers, previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creass. "Ancient Men and Modern Myths focuses on bone structures and characteristics, including bone modifications, breakage, processing, and destruction by animals.The publication first elaborates on the transitions to relics to artifacts and monuments to assemblages and middle-range research and the role of actualistic studies, including artifact and assemblage phase and relic and monument phase. The text then takes a look at the patterns of bone modifications produced by nonhuman agents and human modes of bone modification. Discussions focus on breakage related to other forms of bone processing, morphology of bone breakage, chopping and bone breakage as butchering techniques, butchering marks, bone breakage and destruction by animals, tooth marks, and previous approaches to understanding the significance of broken and modified bone.The manuscript ponders on…
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Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths Hardcover - 1981
by Binford, Lewis R.
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- Title Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths
- Author Binford, Lewis R.
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- Pages 320
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- Date 1981
- ISBN 9780121000356
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New York: Academic Press, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very little to no wear. Quite clean. Part I. Documenting a long-term archaeological problem: Concepts and observations. Part II. Middle-range research-In search of methodology. Part III. Putting our knowledge to work: Seeking to know the past. 'The focus of this book is bones. It may come as a surprise to some that most of the behavioral ideas regarding our ancient past are dependent on the interpretation of faunal remains and depositional context - not, as most textbooks would one to believe, stone tools. . . A study of bones is, however, not sufficient to clarify our ancient past.' Illustrated. Studies in Archeology series. xxv+320 pages. 8 x 9.5 inches. Photos available upon request..
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-: Academic Press Inc, 1981. Hardcover. VG-. lightly used hardcover without dust jacket. pages open loosely at a few points yet binding remains solid, PO name in ink on ffep, very light pencil marginalia to a few pages of text, boards lightly rubbed along edges otherwise clean, page edges lightly scuffed with light soil stain to side edges.
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Academic Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Good+; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Clean covers with minor edgewear; Library stamps to the endpapers; Text pages are clean & unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Blue cloth covers with silver image of an animal skull, and title in silver and gold lettering; 1981, Academic Press ; 320 pages; "Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths," by Lewis R. Binford.
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New York: Academic Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0121000354 . 320 pp. Index. References. Illus. Spine, corners gently bumped. The study of bones and the development of a methodology for using fauna to gain a knowledge of the past. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .
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New York: Academic Press, 1981. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 320pp.incl.index+adverts; HB blue w/silver&gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. "As is suggested in the title of this book, my focus is the study of fauna and the interpretations archaeologists offer regarding data summarized from observations on fauna. Although the primary interest is bones and the development of a methodology for using fauna to gain knowledge of the past, this work goes beyond a mere technical concern for bones." illus.
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