Skilled production and social reproduction. Aspects of Traditional Stone-Tool Technologies, (actes coll. Uppsala, août 2003), 2006, 453 p. -

During a five-day symposium in late August 2003, a group of archaeologists, ethno-archaeologists and flint knappers met in Uppsala to discuss skill in relation to traditional stone-tool technologies and social reproduction. This volume contains 20 of the papers presented at the symposium ant the topics ranges from Oldowan stone tool technologies of the Lower Palaeolithic to the production of flint tools during the Bronze Age. The symposium was arranged by Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis and the department of Archaeology at Uppsala University.Sommaire : Introduction : J. Apel, K. Knutsson, Skilled Production and Social Reproduction - an introduction to the subject ; M.-A. Dobres, Skilled Production and Social Reproduction in prehistory and contemporary archaeology : a personal exegesis on dominant themes and their psychosocial influences / 1. Experiments and Experience : J. Pelegrin, Long blade technology in the Old World : an experimental approach and some archaeological results ; H. Nami, Experiments to explore the Paleoindian flake-core technology in southern Patagonia ; G. R. Nunn, Using the Jutland Type IC Neolithic Danish Dagger as a model to replicate parallel, edge to edge pressure flaking ; E. Callahan, Neolithic Danish Daggers : an experimental peek ; H. Nami, Preliminary experimental observations on a particular class of bifacial artifact from Misiones Province, northeastern Argentina / 2. Theoretical Aspects : K. Knutsson, A genealogy of reflexivity : The skilled lithic craftsman as « scientist » ; A. Högberg, Continuity of place : actions and narratives ; J. Apel, Skill and experimental archaeology ; L. Harlacker, Knowledge and know-how in the Oldowan : an experimental approach ; T. Rankama, M. A. Manninen, E. Hertell, M. Tallavaara, Simple production and social strategies : do they meet ? Social dimensions in Eastern Fennoscandian quartz technologies ; B. Andrews, Skill and the question of blade crafting intensity at Classic Period Teotihuacan ; M. Sorensen, Rethinking the lithic blade definition : towards a dynamic understanding / 3. From Experience to Interpretation : N. Finlay, Manifesting microliths : insights and strategies from experimental replication ; M. Was, Some remarks on contacts between Late Mesolithic hunter-gatherer societies as reflected in their flint technology : a case study from Central Poland ; K. Akerman, High tech-low tech : lithic technology in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia ; P. Falkenström, A matter of choice : social implications of raw material variability ; P. Lekberg, Ground stone hammer axes in Sweden : production, life cycles and value perspectives, c. 2350-1700 cal. B.C. ; W. Migal, The macrolithic flint blades of the neolithic times in Poland ; K. Darmark, Flaked rhyolite from Jettböle : attempts at an experimental explanation.