Lithic technology : measures of production, use, and curation / edited by William Andrefsky, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrefsky, William, Jr., 1955-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone implements--History.

Stone implements.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Stone implements--Analysis.

Tools, Prehistoric--Analysis.

Technology--Social aspects--History.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

History.

Land use--History.

Land use.

Subsistence economy--History.

Subsistence economy.

Social archaeology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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.

Contents:

Part I Introduction, Background, and Review

1 An Introduction to Stone Tool Life History and Technological Organization / William Andrefsky, Jr. 3

2 Lithic Reduction, Its Measurement, and Implications: Comments on the Volume / Michael J. Shott, Margaret C. Nelson 23

Part II Production, Reduction, and Retouch

3 Comparing and Synthesizing Unifacial Stone Tool Reduction Indices / Metin I. Eren, Mary E. Prendergast 49

4 Exploring Retouch on Bifaces: Unpacking Production, Resharpening, and Hammer Type / Jennifer Wilson, William Andrefsky, Jr. 86

5 The Construction of Morphological Diversity: A Study of Mousterian Implement Retouching at Combe Grenal / Peter Hiscock, Chris Clarkson 106

6 Reduction and Retouch as Independent Measures of Intensity / Brooke Blades 136

7 Perforation with Stone Tools and Retouch Intensity: A Neolithic Case Study / Colin Patrick Quinn, William Andrefsky, Jr., Ian Kuijt, Bill Finlayson 150

8 Exploring the Dart and Arrow Dilemma: Retouch Indices as Functional Determinants / Cheryl Harper, William Andrefsky, Jr. 175

Part III New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology

9 Projectile Point Provisioning Strategies and Human Land Use / William Andrefsky, Jr. 195

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 216

11 Raw Material and Retouched Flakes / Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr, D. Randall Cooper 233

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, David S. Clarke 257

13 Changing Reduction Intensity, Settlement, and Subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia / Chris Clarkson 286

14 Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected Diversity / Nathan B. Goodale, Ian Kuijt, Shane J. Macfarlan, Curtis Osterhoudt, Bill Finlayson 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521888271

0521888271

OCLC:

191697283

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