Lithic technological systems and evolutionary theory / edited by Nathan Goodale, Hamilton College, William Andrefsky, Jr., Washington State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodale, Nathan, 1977- editor.

Andrefsky, William, Jr., 1955- editor.

Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting 2009 : Atlanta, Ga.), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stone implements--Analysis--Congresses.

Stone implements.

Tools, Prehistoric--Analysis.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Human evolution--Philosophy.

Human evolution.

Social archaeology.

Human behavior--History.

Human behavior.

Human ecology--History.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Lithic Technological Systems & Evolutionary Theory

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-316-19077-3

1-316-18891-4

1-316-21109-6

1-316-20923-7

1-316-20556-8

1-139-20777-6

1-316-20737-4

1-316-20186-4

1-316-20373-5