SARC STONE AGE REFERENCE COLLECTION SARC has been developed for the teaching department of the Institute of Archaeology(I.A.K.K.) at the University of Oslo, Norway. Institutt for Arkeologi, Kunsthistorie og Konservering Available in English og Norsk SARC is a reference program containing information about the TYPOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, RAW MATERIALS and STUDY METHODS of the Stone Age. click on icons ...

INTERPRETING THE FUNCTION OF STONE TOOLS by Roger Grace This is a hypertext version of the book:- Grace, R. 1989 Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools: The quantification and computerisation of microwear analysis. B.A.R. international series 474. contents CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS CHAPTER 2: THE QUANTIFICATION OF MICROWEAR POLISHES CHAPTER 3: INVESTIGATING HAFTING TRACES WITH ...

EXPERT SYSTEMS LITHAN LITHic ANalysis of stone tools FAST Functional Analysis of Stone Tools EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR LITHIC ANALYSIS by Roger Grace an expert system is a computer program which uses non-numerical domain-specific knowledge to solve problems with a competence comparable with that of human experts ((Doran 1988). EXAMPLE of a simple expert system to identify 20Kroner, 5Kroner and ...

The 'chaine operatoire' approach to lithic analysis by Roger Grace Chaine operatoire, translated as operational sequence, has been described as, the different stages of tool production from the acquisition of raw material to the final abandonment of the desired and/or used objects. By reconstructing the operational sequence we reveal the choices made by ... humans. (Bar-Yosef et. al. 1992, ...