Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goodale, Nathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316188910
• Artikelnr.: 52956329

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory: 1.
Interpreting lithic technology under the evolutionary tent William
Andrefsky, Jr and Nathan Goodale; Part II. Culture History and Phylogenetic
Evolution: 2. Graphing evolutionary pattern in stone tools to reveal
evolutionary process R. Lee Lyman; 3. Theory in archaeology: morphometric
approaches to the study of fluted points Michael Shott; 4. Innovation and
natural selection in Paleoindian projectile points from the American
Southwest Todd L. VanPool, Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman; Part III.
Applications of Behavioral Ecology to Lithic Studies: 5. A case of
extinction in Paleoindian archaeology Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones;
6. The North China Nanolithic Robert L. Bettinger, Christopher Morgan and
Loukas Barton; 7. When to retouch, haft, or discard? Modeling optimal
use/maintenance schedules in lithic tool use Chris Clarkson, Michael Haslam
and Clair Harris; 8. Procurement costs and tool performance requirements:
determining constraints on lithic toolstone selection in Baja California
Sur Jennifer Ferris; 9. A model of lithic raw material procurement Raven
Garvey; 10. Artifacts as patches: the marginal value theorem and stone tool
life histories Steven L. Kuhn and D. Shane Miller; 11. Signals in stone:
exploring the role of social information exchange, conspicuous consumption,
and costly signaling theory in lithic analysis Colin P. Quinn; Part IV.
Cultural Transmission and Morphology: 12. An analysis of stylistic
variability of stemmed obsidian tools (mata'a) on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Carl P. Lipo, Terry L. Hunt and Brooke Hundtoft; 13. Cultural transmission
and the production of material goods: evolutionary pattern through
measuring morphology Nathan Goodale, William Andrefsky, Jr, Curtis
Osterhoudt, Lara Cueni and Ian Kuijt; 14. What Steward got right:
technology, work organization, and cultural evolution Nathan E. Stevens;
15. Evolution of the slate tool industry at Bridge River, British Columbia
Anna M. Prentiss, Nathan Goodale, Lucille E. Harris and Nicole Crossland.