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ritocco a dorso

English translation: backed retouch


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Italian term or phrase:ritocco a dorso
English translation:backed retouch
Entered by: Raffaella Panigada
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21:18 May 3, 2010
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Archaeology
Italian term or phrase: ritocco a dorso
Si tratta di un estratto da un saggio sull'archeologia preistorica africana:

Lo studio degli complessi litici di G1 e G3 ha evidenziato l’importanza di alcune specifiche classi di manufatti, tra cui le punte di freccia, i grattatoi e i manufatti con ritocco a dorso (soprattutto geometrici)
Paolo Mutri
Italy
Local time: 01:47
backed retouch
Explanation:
Ciao Paolo, dovrebbe trattarsi di questo. Da una breve ricerca si evince che questa lavorazione si applichi alle lame di armi e utensili, facendo una ricerca con "backed retouch + blade + archeology" si trova:

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African archaeology - Risultati da Google Libri
D. W. Phillipson - 2005 - History - 389 pagine
In the southeastern highland areas there is evidence for continuous occupation by makers of industries comprising small blades with backed retouch for most ...
books.google.it/books?isbn=0521832365...

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di P BIAGI - Articoli correlati
geometries (6 lunares and 38 triangles), 134 backed- retouch ed instruments (1 backed point, 89 backed blades and 44 backed blades and truncation), 9 den- ...
www.harappa.com/rohri/Chipped-Stone-Tharro-Hills.pdf
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Metin Eren | Papers | Comparing and Synthesizing Lithic Reduction ...
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... Ofer Bar-Yosef, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology for ..... The backed blades (Figure 3.10) and borers (Figure 3.1 r) are one such .... have a higher II value than the blank with the backed retouch (Figure 3.r8c). ...
smu.academia.edu/.../Comparing-and-Synthesizing-Lithic-Reduction-Indices

Qualche riscontro anche per "back retouch", ma molti meno. HTH
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Raffaella Panigada
Italy
Local time: 01:47
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backed retouch


Explanation:
Ciao Paolo, dovrebbe trattarsi di questo. Da una breve ricerca si evince che questa lavorazione si applichi alle lame di armi e utensili, facendo una ricerca con "backed retouch + blade + archeology" si trova:

#
African archaeology - Risultati da Google Libri
D. W. Phillipson - 2005 - History - 389 pagine
In the southeastern highland areas there is evidence for continuous occupation by makers of industries comprising small blades with backed retouch for most ...
books.google.it/books?isbn=0521832365...

# [PDF]
Askategi
- [ Traduci questa pagina ]
Formato file: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Visualizzazione rapida
di P BIAGI - Articoli correlati
geometries (6 lunares and 38 triangles), 134 backed- retouch ed instruments (1 backed point, 89 backed blades and 44 backed blades and truncation), 9 den- ...
www.harappa.com/rohri/Chipped-Stone-Tharro-Hills.pdf
#
Metin Eren | Papers | Comparing and Synthesizing Lithic Reduction ...
- [ Traduci questa pagina ]
... Ofer Bar-Yosef, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology for ..... The backed blades (Figure 3.10) and borers (Figure 3.1 r) are one such .... have a higher II value than the blank with the backed retouch (Figure 3.r8c). ...
smu.academia.edu/.../Comparing-and-Synthesizing-Lithic-Reduction-Indices

Qualche riscontro anche per "back retouch", ma molti meno. HTH

Raffaella Panigada
Italy
Local time: 01:47
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 19
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