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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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A Twenty-First Century Archaeology of Stone Artifacts
Simon Holdaway,Matthew Douglass +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate a continued interest in the final form of stone artifacts by first considering ethnographic accounts of stone artifact manufacture and use in Australia and then by utilizing the patterns observed in these accounts to investigate assemblage patterning within an Australian archaeological case study.
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A new approach to interpreting late Pleistocene microlith industries in southwest Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, a variabilite morphologique of microlithes is presented, which forme the base du systeme de differenciation des traditions culturelles/temporelles majeures de l'Epipaleolithique final in Asie du Sud-Est.
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Bifacial Cores and Flake Production Efficiency: An Experimental Test of Technological Assumptions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test whether bifacial cores are more efficient carriers of flake cutting edge than amorphous cores and find that bifaces do produce flakes with significantly higher edge-to-weight ratios than do amorphus cores, but more of the weight of Bifacial core is lost to waste during the flake production process.
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Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
TL;DR: In this article, a method for reconstructing individual acts of human movement was proposed, where artifacts across unusually long distances were used to reconstruct patterns of movement and differentiate between different types of movement made for different purposes.
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A Review of Heat Treatment Research
Marian Domanski,John Webb +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify two methods of intentional thermal alteration: controlled heat treatment most commonly used to enhance the flaking quality of stone, and thermal shock fracturing often applied to produce angular facets on rounded nodules of tough lithologies.
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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.