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Technological organization and settlement in southwest Tasmania after the glacial maximum
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In this paper, a modele de changement social for le Pleistocene final du sud ouest de la Tasmanie a travers la technologie lithique et l'implantation des sites, en particulier l'utilisation croissante de grattoirs de quartz and de chert semble.Abstract:
Presentation d'un modele de changement social pour le Pleistocene final du sud ouest de la Tasmanie a travers la technologie lithique et l'implantation des sites, en particulier l'utilisation croissante de grattoirs de quartz et de chert semble etre la reponse a un plus grande mobiliteread more
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Technological responses to risk in Holocene Australia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that during the mid-Holocene exploitation of the landscape involved significant risks, and at that time new forms of stoneworking were adopted as an aid in reducing risk.
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A continental narrative: human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years
Alan N. Williams,Peter Veth,Will Steffen,Sean Ulm,Chris S. M. Turney,Jessica M Reeves,Steven J. Phipps,Mike Smith,Mike Smith +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 5044 radiocarbon dates from ∼1750 archaeological sites to develop regional time-series curves for different regions defined in the OZ-INTIMATE compilation as the temperate, tropics, interior and Southern Ocean sectors to explore human-climate relationships in Australia over the last 35,000 years.
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Pattern and Context in the Holocene Proliferation of Backed Artifacts in Australia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Australian backed artifacts appear in the terminal Pleistocene but "proliferate" to become the dominant retouched form in the southeast of the continent only in the mid-Holocene.
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Forty-two degrees south : The archaeology of late Pleistocene Tasmania
TL;DR: The results of archaeological field research in many parts of Australia have challenged the view of late Pleistocene archaeological unity and homogeneity, and debates are increasingly focused on issues of identifying regional behavioral variability and away from a 'normalization' of Australia's prehistory as mentioned in this paper.
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Early Australian implement variation: a reduction model
Peter Hiscock,Val Attenbrow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors hypothesize that the characteristics of early Australian assemblages said to distinguish those types are part of a morphological continuum, and that this continuum is largely explained as a reflection of different levels of reduction.
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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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Technological Organization and Settlement Mobility: An Ethnographic Examination
TL;DR: The relationship between technology and settlement mobility in forager societies has been investigated in this paper. But the relationship between mobility and functional requirements of activities do not alone explain variability in the technologies of forager groups, rather they are one among a larger set of factors that determine how technologies are organized within cultural systems.
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Lithic Procurement in Central Australia: A Closer Look at Binford's Idea of Embeddedness in Archaeology
Richard A. Gould,Sherry Saggers +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the technological characteristics of materials vis-a-vis the mechanical forces involved in their known or presumed uses before assuming the degree to which their procurement was structured by subsistence factors.