Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry

1When is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, ScientificRigor, and the Limits of Inference.- Identifying Weapon Delivery Systems Using Macrofracture Analysisand Fracture Propagation Velocity: A Controlled Experiment.- 3 Experiments inFracture Patterns and Impact Velocity with Replica Hunting Weapons from Japan.-4 ThirtyYears of Experimental Research on the Breakage Patterns of Stone Age OsseousPoints. Overview, Methodological Problems and Current Perspectives.- 5 Levers, Not Springs: How aSpearthrower Works and Why it Matters.- 6 Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and EarlyHolocene European Bone Assemblages and their Implications for Our Knowledge onthe Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology.- 7 Edge Damage on500-thousand-year-old Spear Tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: the CombinedEffects of Spear Use and Taphonomic Processes.- 8 Projectile Damage and Point Morphometry at the Early Middle PaleolithicMisliya Cave, Mount Carmel (Israel): Preliminary Results and Interpretations.- 9 Morpho-metric Variability of EarlyGravettian Tanged "Font-Robert" Points, and Functional Implications.- 10 Early Gravettian ProjectileTechnology in Southwestern Iberian Peninsula: the Double Backed and BipointedBladelets of Vale Boi (Portugal).- 11 Uncertain Evidence for Weapons and Craft Tools: FunctionalInvestigations of Australian Microliths.- 12 Projectiles and Hafting Technology.- 13 Testing Archaeological Approachesto Determining Past Projectile Delivery Systems using Ethnographic andExperimental Data.- 14 Penetration,Tissue Damage, and Lethality of Wood- VersusLithic-Tipped Projectiles.- 15 Experimental and Archeological Observations of Northern IberianPeninsula Middle Paleolithic Mousterian Point Assemblages. Testing thePotential Use of Throwing Spears among Neanderthals.- 16 More to the Point: Developing anMulti-Faceted Approach to Investigating the Curation of Magdalenian OsseousProjectile Points.- 17 Survivorship Distributions in Experimental Spear Points:

Dr. Radu Iovita is a paleoanthropologist and paleolithic archaeologist, currently working at the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum in Neuwied, Germany. His research focuses on experimental approaches to technological evolution and in human migration and adaptation to environmental change in the Eurasian loess steppe. Dr. Katsuhiro Sano is an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo.His research interests revolve around temporal advances in technology andfunction of prehistoric stone tools, especially prehistoric hunting technology.