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Convergent evolution in stone-tool technology /

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Other Authors: O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950- (Editor), Buchanan, Briggs (Briggs Wheeler) (Editor), Eren, Metin I., 1982- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2018]
Series:Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Subjects:
Tools, Prehistoric.
Stone implements.
Paleolithic period.
Table of 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 Smallwood, Heather Smith, Charlotte 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.