Lithic Technology (eBook, PDF)

Measures of Production, Use and Curation
Redaktion: William Andrefsky, Jr

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Produktbeschreibung

The life history of stone tools is intimately linked 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511433931
• Artikelnr.: 38216855

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction, Background and Review: 1. An introduction to stone
tool life history and technological organization William Andrefsky, Jr; 2.
Lithic reduction, its measurement, and implications: comments on the volume
Michael J. Shott and Margaret C. Nelson; Part II. Production, Reduction and
Retouch: 3. Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction
indices Metin I. Eren and Mary E. Prendergast; 4. Exploring retouch on
bifaces: unpacking production, resharpening, and hammer type Jennifer
Wilson and William Andrefsky, Jr; 5. The construction of morphological
diversity: a study of Mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal Peter
Hiscock and Chris Clarkson; 6. Reduction and retouch as independent
measures of intensity Brooke Blades; 7. Perforation with stone tools and
retouch intensity: a Neolithic case study Colin Patrick Quinn, William
Andrefsky, Jr, Ian Kuijt and Bill Finlayson; 8. Exploring the dart and
arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants Cheryl Harper and
William Andrefsky, Jr; Part III. New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material
and Technology: 9. Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land
use William Andrefsky, Jr; 10. The role of lithic raw material availability
and quality in determining tool kit size, tool function, and degree of
retouch: a case study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia
Douglas H. MacDonald; 11. Raw material and retouched flakes Andrew P.
Bradbury, Philip J. Carr and D. Randall Cooper; Part IV. Evolutionary
Approaches to Lithic Technologies: 12. Lithic technological organization in
an evolutionary framework: examples from North America's Pacific Northwest
region Anna Marie Prentiss and David S. Clarke; 13. Changing reduction
intensity, settlement, and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern
Australia Chris Clarkson; 14. Lithic core reduction techniques: modeling
expected diversity Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Shane J. Macfarlan, Curtis
Osterhoudt and Bill Finlayson.