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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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Recent developments in the analysis of lithic artifacts
TL;DR: A review of recent research on lithic technology and functional analysis is presented in this article, where the authors focus on replication and technological analysis of chipped stone artifacts and microwear analysis, and consider the implications of this research.
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Middle and late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age lithic technology from Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa).
TL;DR: Comparison with other material from the Southern African MSA suggests that there is significant inter- and intra-site variability in the Southern Africa Middle Stone Age, even between portions of assemblages that are roughly contemporaneous.
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Neanderthal Shell Tool Production: Evidence from Middle Palaeolithic Italy and Greece
TL;DR: The Mousterian shell scrapers are a response to poor availability of lithic raw material in the areas of occurrence, and may be best described as an extension of chipped stone technologies to specific types of marine shell, their form defined by an existing mental template as discussed by the authors.
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What attributes are important for the measurement of assemblage reduction intensity? Results from an experimental stone artefact assemblage with relevance to the Hoabinhian of mainland Southeast Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of an experimentally produced Hoabinhian assemblage is undertaken to show which flake variables are significant indicators of assemblages reduction intensity.
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Carry That Weight: The Use and Transportation of Stone Tools
TL;DR: In this paper, le transport des artefacts de pierre autour de Safsaf dans le but de comprendre les comportements des hommes face a lapprovisionnement en matiere premiere de blocs naturels ou reemplois.
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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.