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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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Mobility and Raw Material Use at the Hunting Camp Spring Site (35WA96), Blue Mountains, Oregon
TL;DR: In this paper, a tool analysis of the Hunting Camp Spring site (35WA96) in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon provides insight into the technological organization of late prehistoric populations in the southern Columbia Plateau.
Experimentation and scientific inference building in the study of hominin behavior through stone artifact archaeology
TL;DR: Dibble as mentioned in this paper argued that the ability to move beyond the constraint of modern analogs in archaeological knowledge production lies in the use of uniformitarian principles that operate independently from the research questions archaeologists wish to evaluate.
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A study of newly discovered lithics from earlier Stone Age deposits at Sterkfontein, Gauteng province, South Africa
TL;DR: The first assemblage is the Dump 21 collection, a small number of artefacts found recently just south of the Sterkfontein Member 5 West breccia and the former Extension Site of John Robinson as mentioned in this paper.
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Keeping your Edge: Recent Approaches to the Organisation of Stone Artefact Technology
Benjamin Marwick,Alex Mackay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply recent insights from the organization of technology to the interpretation of stone artefact assemblages from a range of archaeological contexts, focusing on the techniques by which people acquired and maintained cutting edge technology, and the situational variables which encouraged them to employ those techniques.
El estrés invernal como generador de áreas marginales en el extremo sur de Patagonia Continental durante el Holoceno tardío
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use deposition rates of lithic artifacts from sites corresponding to terrestrial hunter-gatherer populations of Late Holocene in southern of continental Patagonia and evaluate their variations in relation to the current winter stress.
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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.