Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation

by Andrefsky, William

• ISBN13: 9781107646636
• ISBN10: 1107646634
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-06
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

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

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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