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Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

Author : Nathan Goodale

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 34,60 MB

Release : 2015-01-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1316194426

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Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, risk management, macroevolution, dual inheritance theory, cladistics, central place foraging, costly signaling, selection, drift, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.



Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

Author : Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 13,55 MB

Release : 2015-01-22

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1107026466

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This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a byproduct of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, macroevolution, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.



Lithic Technology

Author : William Andrefsky, Jr

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 26,36 MB

Release : 2008-09-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780521888271

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The life history of stone tools is intimately liked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints, and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes, and retouch measurement. Data sets cover a broad geographic and temporal span, including examples from France during the Paleolithic, the Near East during the Neolithic, and other regions such as Mongolia, Australia, and Italy. North American examples are derived from Paleoindian times to historic period aboriginal populations throughout the United States and Canada.



Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

Author : Erick Robinson

Publisher : Springer

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 15,49 MB

Release : 2017-11-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3319644076

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The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches.​ ​As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.



Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology

Author : Anna Marie Prentiss

Publisher : Springer

Page : 437 pages

File Size : 40,36 MB

Release : 2019-06-03

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3030111172

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Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology. The book will provide a single source for introduction and overview of basic and advanced evolutionary concepts and research programs in archaeology. Content will be organized around four areas of critical research including microevolutionary and macroevolutionary process, human ecology studies (evolutionary ecology, demography, and niche construction), and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Authors of individual chapters will address theoretical foundations, history of research, contemporary contributions and debates, and implications for the future for their respective topics. As appropriate, authors present or discuss short empirical case studies to illustrate key arguments. ​



Stone Tools in Human Evolution

Author : John J. Shea

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 14,70 MB

Release : 2017

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 1107123097

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An exploration of how the evolution of behavioral differences between humans and other primates affected the archaeological stone tool evidence.



Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East

Author : John J. Shea

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 427 pages

File Size : 26,48 MB

Release : 2013-02-28

Category : History

ISBN : 1107006988

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Book Description

This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.



Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Author : Metin I. Eren

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 38,77 MB

Release : 2022-07-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1800734301

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Book Description

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological practice is becoming increasingly important. This volume includes chapters that cover a wide range of archaeological applications of diversity measures. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.



The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making

Author : Pierre M. Desrosiers

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 534 pages

File Size : 28,36 MB

Release : 2012-03-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1461420032

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Human development is a long and steady process that began with stone tool making. Because of this skill, humans were able to adapt to climate changes, discover new territories, and invent new technologies. "Pressure knapping" is the common term for one method of creating stone tools, where a larger device or blade specifically made for this purpose is use to press out the stone tool. Pressure knapping was invented in different locations and at different points in time, representing the adoption of the Neolithic way of life in the Old world. Recent research on pressure knapping has led for the first time to a global thesis on this technique. The contributors to this seminal work combine research findings on pressure knapping from different cultures around the globe to develope a cohesive theory. This contributions to this volume represents a significant development to research on pressure knapping, as well as the field of lithic studies in general. This work will be an important reference for anyone studying the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods, lithic studies, technologies, and more generally, cultural transmission.



Lithics

Author : William Andrefsky, Jr

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 45,58 MB

Release : 2005-12-08

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780521615006

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This fully updated and revised edition of William Andrefsky Jr's ground-breaking manual on lithic analysis is designed for students and professional archaeologists. It explains the fundamental principles of the measurement, recording and analysis of stone tools and stone tool production debris. Introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, classification, terminology and key concepts, the volume comprehensively explores methods and techniques, presenting detailed case studies of lithic analysis from around the world. It also examines new emerging techniques and includes a new section on stone tool functional studies.