Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481790
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Other authors / contributors:Goodale, Nathan, 1977-
Andrefsky, William, Jr., 1955-
Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (74th : 2009 : Atlanta, Ga.)
ISBN:9781316203736
1316203735
9781139207775
1139207776
9781316207376
1316207374
9781107026469
1107026466
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This collection of essays combines different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior.
Other form:Print version: Lithic technological systems and evolutionary theory 9781107026469
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 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 M. Prentiss, Nathan Goodale, Lucille E. Harris and Nicole Crossland.