Lithic technological systems and evolutionary theory /
"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 gr...
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New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of 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 M. 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 Marie Prentiss, Nathan Goodale, Lucille E. Harris, and Nicole Crossland.