The Minori Cave Expedient Lithic Technology by Armand Salvador B. Mijares (Out of Print)

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"Minori Cave is a limestone tunnel cave in the Cagayan Valley in northern Luzon. Chamber D, located at one of the cave's two entrances, was excavated by the Philippine National Museum in 1981äóñ1982, and then by Mijares and another museum researcher in 1999, and they obtained a radiocarbon date on charcoal of around 4600 yr B.P. Most of the stone artifacts are of andesite with a smaller contingent made of chert. During his graduate studies program at the University of New Mexico, Mijares analyzed the technology and use-wear traces of a sample of 110 Minori flakes in the context of studies he undertook on experimentally knapped and utilized andesite and chert flakes. One particular concern of Mijares is to show the likelihood that prehistoric Philippine inhabitants had used andesite flakes as tools, as this would serve as a reprimand to those Philippine archaeologists who routinely ignore andesite artifacts. His second main objective is to investigate the hypothesis that the "stagnant" nature of stone knapping in the Philippines (and elsewhere in Southeast Asia) reflects the prevailing focus on producing expedient stone tools to work the wide range of useful plant material found in the region's forests. These are important matters, and the publication of Mijares' thesis research is a fitting commencement to the Contribution to Archaeology Series set up by the faculty and staŒ_ of the Archaeological Studies Program at the University of the Philippines, as Victor Paz (in his capacity as series editor) notes in his preface."
A Philippine import.

Item Weight : 12.6 ounces
Unknown Binding : 114 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-97-1-542373-1
ISBN-10 : 971542373-6
Publisher : University of the Philippines; First Edition (January 1, 2002)
Language: English


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