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Lithic Technology

Measures of Production, Use and Curation

By: William Andrefsky, Jr (Editor)

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Paperback | 6 August 2012

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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.

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Review of the hardback: 'The different approaches to lithic analysis proposed by the authors will be of great value in broader archaeological interpretation as issues raised in the volume are explored in the future ... The authors in this volume present us with interesting ideas and a healthy debate.' Geoarchaeology
Review of the hardback: 'Lithic Technology succeeds in its goal of combining unique temporal and cultural examples to demonstrate a link between technological organization theory and the reconstruction of lithic retouched tool life histories ... It should be required reading for any upper division undergraduate or graduate lithics class where its chapters can be discussed, debated and used as reference points for future research. Lithic Technology is also highly recommended for anyone interested in reading about diverse analytical measures for retouched lithic tools and theoretical arguments regarding lithic production trajectories currently debated by lithicists around the globe.' PaleoAnthropology

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Non-Fiction Archaeology Archaeological Science, Methodology & Techniques Archaeology by Period & Region Prehistoric Archaeology Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Earth Sciences Geology & The Lithosphere Historical Geology

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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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