Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology / edited by Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950- editor.

Buchanan, Briggs (Briggs Wheeler), editor.

Eren, Metin I., 1982- editor.

Series:

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tools, Prehistoric.

Stone implements.

Paleolithic period.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Contents:

Issues in archaeological studies of convergence / Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren

Limits on the possible forms of stone tools : a perspective from convergent biological evolution / George R. McGhee

The transparency of imitation versus emulation in the Middle Palaeolithic / R. Alexander Bentley

Why convergence should be a potential hypothesis for the emergence and occurrence of stone-tool form and production processes : an illustration using replication / Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan, and Michael J. O'Brien

Technical constraints on the convergent evolution of technologies / Mathieu Charbonneau

Being a carnivorous hominin in the Lower Paleolithic : a biological perspective on convergence and stasis / Daniel E. Lieberman

Reduction constraints and shape convergence along tool ontogenetic trajectories : an example from late Holocene projectile points of southern Patagonia / Judith Charlin and Marcello Cardillo

Convergence and continuity in the initial Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia / Steven L. Kuhn and Nicolas Zwyns

The point is the point : emulative social learning and weapon manufacture in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa / Jayne Wilkins

Small, sharp and standardized : global convergence in backed-microlith technology / Chris Clarkson, Peter Hiscock, Alex Mackay, and Ceri Shipton

The convergent evolution of serrated points on the Southern Plains-Woodland border of central North America / Ashley M. Smallwood, Heather L. Smith, Charlotte D. Pevny, and Thomas A. Jennings

Clovis and Toyah : convergent blade technologies on the Southern Plains periphery of North America / Thomas A. Jennings and Ashley M. Smallwood

The "Levallois-like" technological system of the Western Stemmed Tradition : a case of convergent evolution in early North American prehistory? / Loren G. Davis and Samuel C. Willis

Assessing the likelihood of convergence among North American projectile-point types / Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren, and Michael J. O'Brien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262037839

0262037831

OCLC:

1002291345