Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-08-06
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Background, and Review
An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization
Lithic reduction, its measurement and implications: comments on the volume
Production, Reduction, and Retouch
Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices
Unpacking production, resharpening and hammer type
The construction of morphological diversity: a study of mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal
Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity
Stone tool perforating and retouch intensity: a neolithic case study
Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants
New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology
Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land-use
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
Raw material and retouched flakes
Evolutionary Approaches to Lithic Technologies
Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples from North America's Pacific Northwest region
Changing reduction intensity, settlement and subsistence in
Lithic core reduction techniques: a model for predicting expected diversity
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