Chapter 1. Introduction: Breaking Stones Without Striking Them
Pierre M. Desrosiers
Chapter 2. Pressure Debitage in the Old World. Forerunners, Researchers, Geopolitics:
Handing On the Baton
Marie-Louise Inizan
Chapter 3. Stoneworkers' Approaches to Replicating Prismatic Blades
John E. Clark
Chapter 4. Early Holocene Climate Change and the Adoption of Pressure Technique in the Maghreb: the Capsian Sequence at Kef Zoura D (Eastern Algeria)
Noura Rahmani and David Lubell
Chapter 5. Pressure Blade Production with a Lever in the Early and Late Neolithic
of the Near East
Ciler Altinbilek-Algul, Laurence Astruc, Didier Binder and Jacques Pelegrin
Chapter 6. Two examples of Pressure Blade Production with a Lever: Recent Research from the Southern Caucasus (Armenia) and Northern Mesopotamia (Syria, Iraq)
Jacques Chabot and Jacques Pelegrin
Chapter 7. Pressure Knapping Blade Production in the North-Western Mediterranean Region during the 7th millennium cal B.C.
Didier Binder, Carmine Collina, Raphaelle Guilbert, Thomas Perrin and with the collaboration of Oreto Garcia-Puchol
Chapter 8. Origin And Development Of Pressure Blade Production In The Southern Iberian Peninsula (6th-3rd Millennium B.C.)
Antonio Morgado and Jacques Pelegrin
Chapter 9. The Arrival and Development of Pressure Blade Technology in Southern Scandinavia
Mikkel Sorensen
Chapter 10. Surface Pressure Flaking in Eurasia: Mapping the innovation, diffusion and evolution of a technological element in the production of projectile points
Kim Darmark
Chapter 11. Emergence and Development of the Pressure Microblade Production: A View from the Upper Paleolithic of Northern Japan
Jun Takakura
Chapter 12. The Technique of Pressure Knapping in Central Asia: Innovation or Diffusion?
Frederique Brunet
Chapter 13. Blades and Microblades, Percussion and Pressure: Towards the Evolution
of Lithic Technologies of the Stone Age Period, Russian Far East
Andrei V. Tabarev
Chapter 14. Pressure Microblade Industries in Pleistocene-Holocene Interior Alaska:
Current Data and Discussions
Yan Axel Gomez Coutouly
Chapter 15. Eastern Arctic under Pressure: from Paleoeskimo to Inuit Culture (Canada and Greenland)
Pierre M. Desrosiers and Mikkel Sorensen
Chapter 16. The Organizational Structures of Mesoamerican Obsidian Prismatic Blade Technology
Kenneth G. Hirth
Chapter 17. Development of Pressure Blade Technology in North-Central and West Mexico
Veronique Darras
Chapter 18. New Experimental Observations for the Characterization of Pressure Blade Production Techniques
Jacques Pelegrin
Chapter 19. Measurable Flintknapping for Long Pressure Blades
P. Kelterborn