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Technological Organization and Hunter-Gather Land Use: a California Example
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In this article, a case study focused on mobility patterns in one area of coastal California to exemplify one approach to dealing with it is presented, emphasizing the importance of considering the ways in which local conditions mediate the effects of global aspects of human adaptations and, second, the interactions between multiple causal factors as conditioners of technology.Abstract:
Recent research has identified a number of general factors with important effects on flaked-stone technology but has been less effective in solving the problem of examining these factors in specific archaeological contexts. This paper discusses this issue and presents a case study focused on mobility patterns in one area of coastal California to exemplify one approach to dealing with it. This study emphasizes the importance of considering, first, the ways in which local conditions mediate the effects of global aspects of human adaptations and, second, the interactions between multiple causal factors as conditioners of technology. This example highlights the role played by multiple, distinct technological strategies within a single pattern of activity as well as the potential ambiguity of the relations between these strategies and global mobility patterns.read more
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The Lithic Production System of the Princess Point Complex during the Transition to Agriculture in Southwestern Ontario, Canada
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A new method for accurately and precisely measuring flake platform area
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Raw material economies and mobility patterns in the Late Paleolithic at Shuidonggou locality 2, north China
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Habitation and land use patterns in the Upper Mangrove Creek catchment, New South Wales central coast, Australia
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Organization and Formation Processes: Looking at Curated Technologies
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Technological Efficiency and Tool Curation
TL;DR: It is argued that the nature and distribution of lithic resources critically affect technological efficiency and two aspects of curation, maintenance and recycling are discussed, asserting that they are responses to raw material shortages.
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Coming into the Country: Early Paleoindian Hunting and Mobility
Robert L. Kelly,Lawrence Todd +1 more
TL;DR: In the case of early (ca. 12,000-10,000 B.P.) Paleoindian groups in the Americas, the availability of neighboring groups with a detailed knowledge of local resource geography could not be relied upon as discussed by the authors.