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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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Inferring the Function of Projectile Points from the Central Coast of Alta California
TL;DR: It is argued that functional analyses of stone tools greatly expand the potential information yield from this artifact class and increase its relevance to issues of foraging efficiency and technological evolution.
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The influence of raw material size on stone artefact assemblage formation: An example from Bone Cave, south-western Tasmania
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of raw material size on stone artefact assemblage formation was examined in conjunction with two behavioural processes, reduction intensity and artefact transport, in an experimental setting and in an archaeological setting.
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Changing perspectives in Australian archaeology, part IX. Fishing for data—the value of fine-mesh screening for fish-bone recovery: a case study from Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland
Anne Ross,Helene Tomkins +1 more
TL;DR: In an effort to address these contrasting perceptions, excavation of the Lazaret Midden on Peel Island employed a 1 mm mesh sieve to maximize fish bone recovery as mentioned in this paper, which suggests that fish remains are indeed numerous in this site, although the extreme fragmentation of the bone recovered from the fine sieve makes identification of fish taxa largely impossible.
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Technological Organization and Sedentism: Expedient Core Reduction, Stockpiling, and Tool Curation at the Meier Site (35CO5)
TL;DR: In this paper, a fine-grained lithic assemblage was used to test the hypothesis that a sedentary group will rely heavily on expedient lithic technologies because they stockpile raw material at the residence.
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Tool hoards and Neolithic use of the landscape in north-eastern Ireland
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined caches of flaked stone tools in County Antrim, Ireland, to consider the links between anticipatory tool storage and human land-use patterns, and found that regular human movements over the study area, possibly linked to transhumant use of different altitudinal zones, with functionally and, sometimes, technologically specific classes of tools stored in different areas.
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Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of adaptation is proposed to anticipate both differences in settlement-subsistence strategies and patterning in the archaeological record through a more detailed knowledge of the distribution of environmental variables.
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Organization and Formation Processes: Looking at Curated Technologies
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon ethnographic experiences among the Nunamiut Eskimo for insights into the effects of technological organization on interassemblage variability Varying situationally conditioned strategies of raw material procurement, tool design and manufacture, and disposal are described as clues to site function or "placement" in a subsistence-settlement system.
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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.