Subsistence and Stone Tool Technology
Author : Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Dave D. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Stone implements
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Author : John K. Chance
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Court records
ISBN :
Author : Harry Lourandos
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN :
Variations in subsistence patterns in different ecological areas; implications for stone tool technology.
Author : Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262552086
Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the nearly ubiquitous use of stone tools by humans and their ancestors, the study of lithic technology offers an important line of inquiry into questions of evolution and behavior. This book examines convergence in stone tool-making, cases in which functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Identifying examples of convergence, and distinguishing convergence from divergence, refutes hypotheses that suggest physical or cultural connection between far-flung prehistoric toolmakers. Employing phylogenetic analysis and stone-tool replication, the contributors show that similarity of tools can be caused by such common constraints as the fracture properties of stone or adaptive challenges rather than such unlikely phenomena as migration of toolmakers over an Arctic ice shelf. Contributors R. Alexander Bentley, Briggs Buchanan, Marcelo Cardillo, Mathieu Charbonneau, Judith Charlin, Chris Clarkson, Loren G. Davis, Metin I. Eren, Peter Hiscock, Thomas A. Jennings, Steven L. Kuhn, Daniel E. Lieberman, George R. McGhee, Alex Mackay, Michael J. O'Brien, Charlotte D. Pevny, Ceri Shipton, Ashley M. Smallwood, Heather Smith, Jayne Wilkins, Samuel C. Willis, Nicolas Zayns
Author : William Andrefsky, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107646636
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.
Author : Robin Torrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1989-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521253505
This collection aims to refocus archaeological and anthropological interest in technology.
Author : Earl Herbert Swanson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111390373
Author : William Andrefsky, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521888271
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.
Author : Heidi Knecht
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1489918515
Artifacts linked to projectile technologies traditionally have provided the foundations for time-space systematics and cultural-historic frameworks in archaeological research having to do with foragers. With the shift in archae ological research objectives to processual interpretations, projectile technolo gies continue to receive marked attention, but with an emphasis on the implications of variability in such areas as design, function, and material as they relate to the broader questions of human adaptation. The reason that this particular domain of foraging technology persists as an important focus of research, I think, comes in three parts. A projectile technology was a crucial part of most foragers' strategies for survival, it was functionally spe cific, and it generally was fabricated from durable materials likely to be detected archaeologically. Being fundamental to meat acquisition and the principal source of calo ries, projectile technologies were typically afforded greater time-investment, formal modification, and elaboration of attributes than others. Moreover, such technologies tend to display greater standardization because of con straints on size, morphology, and weight that are inherent to the delivery system. The elaboration of attributes and standardization of form gives pro jectile technologies time-and space-sensitivity that is greater than most other foraging technologies. And such sensitivity is immensely valuable in archae ological research.