Lithic Technology Measures of Production Use and Curation 1st Edition by William Andrefsky ISBN 0521888271 9780521888271

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ISBN 10: 0521888271

ISBN 13: 9780521888271 

Author: William Andrefsky 

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:

Part I. Introduction, Background and Review

1. An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization
2. Lithic reduction, its measurement, and implications: comments on the volume

Part II. Production, Reduction and Retouch
3. Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices
4. Exploring retouch on bifaces: unpacking production, resharpening, and hammer type
5. The construction of morphological diversity: a study of Mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal
6. Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity
7. Perforation with stone tools and retouch intensity: a Neolithic case study
8. Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants

Part III. New Perspectives on Lithic Raw Material and Technology
9. Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land use
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
11. Raw material and retouched flakes

Part IV. Evolutionary Approaches to Lithic Technologies
12. Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples from North America’s Pacific Northwest region
13. Changing reduction intensity, settlement, and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia
14. Lithic core reduction techniques: modeling expected diversity

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