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This book is a fully updated and revised edition of William
Andrefsky Jr's ground-breaking manual on lithic analysis. Designed
for students and professional archaeologists, this highly
illustrated book explains the fundamental principles of the
measurement, recording and analysis of stone tools and stone tool
production debris. Introducing the reader to lithic raw materials,
classification, terminology and key concepts, it comprehensively
explores methods and techniques, presenting detailed case studies
of lithic analysis from around the world. It examines new emerging
techniques, such as the advances being made in lithic debitage
analysis and lithic tool analysis, and includes a new section on
stone tool functional studies. An extensive and expanded glossary
makes this book an invaluable reference for archaeologists at all
levels.
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.
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 great potential to fill this gap. This
collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary
perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a
by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics,
including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission,
phylogenetic analysis, risk management, macroevolution, dual
inheritance theory, cladistics, central place foraging, costly
signaling, selection, drift, and various applications of
evolutionary ecology.
The life history of stone tools is intimately linked 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.
This book is a fully updated and revised edition of William
Andrefsky Jr's ground-breaking manual on lithic analysis. Designed
for students and professional archaeologists, this highly
illustrated book explains the fundamental principles of the
measurement, recording and analysis of stone tools and stone tool
production debris. Introducing the reader to lithic raw materials,
classification, terminology and key concepts, it comprehensively
explores methods and techniques, presenting detailed case studies
of lithic analysis from around the world. It examines new emerging
techniques, such as the advances being made in lithic debitage
analysis and lithic tool analysis, and includes a new section on
stone tool functional studies. An extensive and expanded glossary
makes this book an invaluable reference for archaeologists at all
levels.
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