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Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory /
This collection of essays combines different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.