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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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Illuminating high elevation seasonal occupational duration using diversity in lithic raw materials and tool types in the greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA
Rachel Reckin,Lawrence C. Todd +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for estimating relative occupational duration at high elevations using lithic tool and raw material diversity was proposed, assuming high elevation occupations are seasonal, using data from the Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains.
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Sedentism and Settlement in Native California: Research Progress and Prospects
Luci M. Simpson,Terry L. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: The ethnographic literature of California has long attributed some measure of reduced mobility to nearly all of its Native societies as mentioned in this paper, but methods for determining this measure for any given group ha....
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Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal Flaked Stone Artefact Technology on the Cumberland Plain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: A View from the South Creek Catchment
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a technological analysis of a sizeable cultural lithic assemblage recovered from a compliance-based salvage excavation completed within Woorong Park Residual Rise 1, an open air Aboriginal archaeological site located in the northwestern portion of the Plain, in the South Creek catchment.
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Stone Tool Manufacture Strategies and Lithic Raw Material Exploitation in Coastal Patagonia, Argentina: A Multivariate Approach
Marcelo Cardillo,Jimena Alberti +1 more
TL;DR: Cardillo, Marcelo, et al. as mentioned in this paper have published a paper on the "Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas and Tecnicas".
Evolution of hunter-gatherer socioeconomic systems during the middle to late Holocene in the Upper Columbia and the Interior Northwest
TL;DR: Goodale et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the timing and nature of the advent of collector-type systems and the emergence of social complexity in the Interior Northwest using calibrated radiocarbon data to examine and evaluate theoretical hypotheses concerning transitions in-socioeconomic systems.
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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.