A Projectile Point Use-Wear Bibliography

compiled by John Dockall <dockall@lava.net>

last updated: July 6, 1998

Ahler, Stanley A.
1971 Projectile Point Form and Function at Rodgers Shelter, Missouri. Missouri Archaeological Society Research Series 8. Columbia:Missouri.
Ahler, Stanley A.
1979 "Functional Analysis of Nonobsidian Chippd Stone Artifacts: Terms, Variables, and Quantification," in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. New York: Academic Press, 301-328.
Ahler, Stanley A.
1989 "Experimental Knapping with KRF and Midcontinent Cherts: Overview and Applications," in Daniel S. Amick and Raymond P. Mauldin, eds., Experiments in Lithic Technology. BAR International Series 528. Oxford: B.A.R., 199-234.
Ahler, Stanley A.
1992 "Use-Phase Classification and Manufacturing Technology in Plains Village Arrowpoints," in Piecing Together the Past: Applications of Refitting Studies in Archaeology. BAR International Series 578. Oxford: B.A.R., 36-62.
Ahler, Stanley A., and R. Bruce McMillan
1976 "Material Culture at Rodgers Shelter: A Reflection of Past Human Activities," in W. Raymond Wood and R. Bruce McMillan, eds., Prehistoric Man and His Environments. New York: Academic Press, 163-199.
Anderson-Gerfaud, Patricia
1990 "Aspects of Behaviour in the Middle Palaeolithic: Functional Analysis of Stone Tools From Southwest France," in Paul Mellars, ed., The Emergence of Modern Humans. New York: Cornell University Press, pp. 389-418.
Bergman, Chris A., and Mark H. Newcomer
1983 "Flint Arrowhead Breakage: Examples from Ksar Akil, Lebanon," Journal of Field Archaeology 10:238-243.
Beyries, Sylvie
1988 "Functional Variability of Lithic Sets in the Middle Paleolithic," in Harold L. Dibble, Anta Montet-White, eds., Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of Western Eurasia. University Museum Monographs 54. Pittsburgh: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, pp. 213-223.
Boisvert, Richard
1980 "A Technological Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas", unpublished Masters thesis, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Bradley, Bruce A.
1982 "Flaked Stone Technology and Typology," in George C. Frison and Dennis J. Stanford, eds., The Agate Basin Site. New York: Academic Press, 181-208.
Bradley, Bruce A., and George C. Frison
1987 "Projectile Points and Specialized Bifaces from the Horner Site," in George C. Frison and Lawrence C. Todd, eds., The Horner Site. New York: Academic Press, 199-232.
Buckley, Donald H.
1981 Surface Effects in Adhesion, Friction, Wear, and Lubrication. New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company.
Callahan, Erret
1979 "The Basics of Biface Knapping in the eastern Fluted Point Tradition: A Manual for Flintknappers and Lithic Analysts," Archaeology of Eastern North America 7:1-180.
Cotterell, Brian, and Johan Kamminga
1979 "The Mechanics of Flaking," in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. New York: Academic Press, 97-112.
Cotterell, Brian, and Johan Kamminga
1987 "The Formation of Flakes," American Antiquity 52(4):675-708.
Cotterell, Brian, and Johan Kamminga
1990 Mechanics of Pre-Industrial Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Czichos, Horst
1978 Tribology: A Systems Approach to the Science and Technology of Friction, Lubrication, and Wear. New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company.
Del Bene, Terry A.
1979 "Once Upon a Striation: Current Models of Striation and Polish Formation," in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. New York: Academic Press, 167- 177.
Dockall, John E.
1994 "Oval Biface Celt Variability During the Maya Late Preclassic," Lithic Technology 19(1): 52-68.
Dockall, John E., and Harry J. Shafer
1993 "Testing the Producer-Consumer Model for Santa Rita Corozal, Belize," Latin American Antiquity 4(2): 158-179.
Driskell, Boyce N.
1986 The Chipped Stone Tool Production/Use Cycle. BAR International Series 305. Oxford: B.A.R.
Drollinger, Harold D., Jr.
1989 "An Investigation of a Late Preclassic Maya Chert Workshop from Colha, Belize," unpublished Master's thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station.
Epstein, Jeremiah F.
1963 "The Burin-Faceted Projectile Point," American Antiquity 29(2): 187-201.
Fischer, Anders, Peter V. Hansen, and Peter Rasmussen
1984 "Macro and Micro Wear Traces on Lithic Projectile Points," Journal of Danish Archaeology 3: 19-46.
Frison, George C., ed.
1974 The Casper Site. New York: Academic Press.
Frison, George C., and Dennis J. Stanford
1982 The Agate Basin Site. New York: Academic Press
Greiser, Sally T.
1977 "Micro-Analysis of Wear Patterns on Projectile Points and Knives from the Jurgens Site, Kersey, Colorado," Plains Anthropologist 22-76 Pt. 1: 107-116.
Haury, Emil, W.
1953 "Artifacts with Mammoth Remains, Naco, Arizona:1. Discovery of the Naco Mammoth and Associated Projectile Points," American Antiquity 19:1-14.
Hayden, Brian, ed.
1979 Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. New York: Academic Press.
Hester, Thomas R., and Robert F. Heizer
1973 "Arrow Points or Knives? Comments on the Porposed Function of Stockton Points," American Antiquity 28(2): 220-221.
Ho Ho Nomenclature Committee
1979 "The Ho Ho Classification and Nomenclature Committee Report," in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. Academic Press: New York, 133- 135.
Holdaway, Simon
1989 "Were There Hafted Projectile Points in the Mousterian?", Journal of Field Archaeology 16:79-85.
Huckell, Bruce B.
1982 "The Denver Elephant Project: A Report on Experimentation with Thrusting Spears," Plains Anthropologist 27(97): 217-224.
Johnson, Jay K.
1979 "Archaic Biface Manufacture: Production Failures, A Chronicle of the Misbegotton," Lithic Technology VIII(2): 25-35.
Johnson, Jay K.
1981 "An Additional Failure Type During Biface Manufacture," Lithic Technology X(1): 10-11.
Johnson, Jay K.
1981b"Further Additional Biface Production Failures," Lithic Technology X(2-3): 26-28.
Kamminga, Johann
1979 "The Nature of Use-Polish and Abrasive Smoothing on Stone Tools", in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. New York: Academic Press, 143-166.
Keeley, Lawrence H.
1974 "The Methodology of Microwear Analysis: A Comment on Nance," American Antiquity 39(1): 126-128.
Keeley, Lawrence H.
1980 Experimental Determination of Stone Tool Uses. New York: University of Chicago Press.
Keeley, Lawrence H.
1982 "Hafting and Retooling: Effects on the Archaeological Record," American Antiquity 47(4):798-809.
McAnany, Patricia A.
1986 Lithic Technology and Exchange Among Wetland Farmers of the Eastern Maya Lowlands, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of new Mexico, Albuquerque.
McAnany, Patricia A.
1988 "The Effects of Lithic Procurement Strategies on Tool Curation and Recycling," Lithic Technology 17:3-11.
McCary, Ben C.
1975 "The Williamson Paleo-Indian Site, Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Chesopiean 13(3-4).
Moore, Desmond F.
1975 Principles and Applications of Tribology. New York: Pergamon Press.
Moss, Emily H.
1983a"A Microwear Analysis of Burins and Points from Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria," in M.-C. Cauvin, ed., Traces D'Utilisation sur les Outils Neolithiques du Proche Orient, Travaux de la Maison de L'Orient 5. Paris: Travaux de la Maison de L'Orient Mediterraneen, 143-162.
Moss, Emily H.
1983b The Functional Analysis of Flint Implements. Pincevent and Pont d'Ambon: Two Cases from the French Final Palaeolithic. BAR International Series 177. Oxford: B.A.R.
Nance, J. D.
1971 "Functional Interpretations from Microscopic Analysis," American Antiquity 36(3): 361-366
Odell, George H.
1977 The Application of Micro-Wear Analysis to the Lithic Component of an entire Prehistoric Settlement: Methods, Problems and Functional Reconstructions. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, No. 77-27,354.
Odell, George H.
1979 "A New and Improved System for the Retrieval of Functional Information from Microscopic Observations of Chipped Stone Tools," in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. Academic Press: New York, 329-344.
Odell, George H.
1981 "The Mechanics of Use-Brekage of Stone Tools: Some Testable Hypotheses," Journal of Field Archaeology 8: 197-209.
Odell, George H., and Frank Cowan
1986 "Experiments with Spears and Arrows on Animal Targets," Journal of Field Archaeology 13: 195-212.
Patterson, Leland W.
1994 "Incidental Impact Breakage of Arrow Points", La Tierra 21(4): 19-24.
Olausson, Debra S.
1983 "Lithic Technological Analysis of the Thin-Butted Flint Axe," Acta Archaeologica 53:1-87.
Rigney, David A.
1981 Fundamentals of Friction and Wear of Materials. Papers Presented at the 1980 ASM Materials Science Seminar. American Society of Metals: Metals Park, Ohio.
Roemer, Erwin
1989 "Edge-Damage Analysis of Projectile Points", in Archaeological Survey at Fort Hood, Texas, Fiscal Year 1982, The Range Construction Projects, Research Report No. 10, United States Army Fort Hood, Archaeological Resource Management Series, pp.177-201
Roper, Donna C.
1979 "Breakage Patterns of Central Illinois Woodland Projectile Points," Plains Anthropologist 24(84):113-121.
Semenov, Sergei A.
1964 Prehistoric Technology. London: Corey Adams and Mackay.
Shafer, Harry J.
1982 "Maya Lithic Craft Specialization in Northern Belize," in Thomas R. Hester, Harry J. Shafer, and Jack D. Eaton, eds., Archaeology at Colha Belize: The 1981 Interim Report. San Antonio: Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio and Centro Studie Recerche Ligabue, Venezia, 31-37.
Shea, John J.
1988 "Spear Points from the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant," Journal of Field Archaeology 15(4): 441- 450.
Shea, John J.
1990 "A Further Note on Mousterian Spear Points", Journal of Field Archaeology 17: 111-115.
Shea, John J.
1991 The Behavioral Significance of Levantine Mousterian Industrial Variability. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Boston. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, No. 9132096.
Sheets, Payson D.
1973 "Edge Abrasion During Biface Manufacture," American Antiquity, 38(2): 215-218.
Tixier, Jacques
1974 "Glossary for the Description of Stone Tools, with Special Reference to the Epipaleolithic of the Maghreb," translated by Mark H. Newcomer, Newsletter of Lithic Technology Special Publication 1. The Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas, San Antonio.
Torrence, Robin
1986 Production and Exchange of Stone Tools. New York:Cambridge University Press.
Truncer, James J.
1990 "Perkiomen Points: A Study in Variability," in Roger W. Moeller, ed., Experiments and Observations on the Terminal Archaic of the Middle Atlantic Region. Bethlehem, CT: Archaeological Services.
Tsirk, Are
1979 "Regarding Fracture Initiations," in Brian Hayden, ed., Lithic Use-Wear Analysis. New York: Academic Press, 83-96.
Young, David E., and Robson Bonnichson
1984 Understanding Stone Tools: A Cognitive Approach. Peopling of the Americas Process Series: Vol. 1. Orono: Center for the Study of Early Man, University of Maine.