Understanding the biography of stone tools is very much part of the French
technological tradition. See: Inizan, M.-L., et. al. 1992. Chapter 2:
Reading a Stone Object. In "Technology of Knapped Stone". CREP. To a certain
extent, the 'chaine operatoire' is concerned with the biographies of
technological objects and the literature on this is vast.
James
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> I am wondering if there is anyone out there among the archaeology
> professionals who is considering or studying the biographies of
> archaeological artefacts. Or maybe some sort of an flowmodel to clear up
> the picture of an artefacts life history...
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