Lithic materials and Paleolithic societies
By: edited by Brian Adams and Brooke Blades.
Contributors: Adams, Brian.; Blades, Brooke S.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781405168373
Subjects: Stone implements -- Analysis; Tools, Prehistoric -- Analysis; Paleolithic period; Land settlement patterns; Social archaeology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Raw materials and techno-economic behaviors at Oldowan and Acheulean sites in the West Turkana Region, Kenya / Sonia Harmand; title: Patterns of lithic material procurement and transformation during the Middle Paleolithic in Western Europe / Liliane Meignen, Anne Delagnes, and Laurence Bourguignon; title: Revisiting European Upper Paleolithic raw material transfers : the demise of the cultural ecological paradigm? / Jehanne Féblot-Augustins; title: Raw materials for chipped stone artifacts : state of the art in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe / Kati Biró; title: Upper Paleolithic toolstone procurement and selection across Beringia / Kelly Graf and Ted Goebel; title: Reduction, recycling, and raw material procurement in Western Arnhem Land, Australia / Peter Hiscock; title: Paleolithic exploitation of rounded and sub-angular quartzites in the Indian subcontinent / Parth Chauhan; title: Filling the void : lithic raw material utilization during the Hungarian gravettian / Viola Dobosi; title: Technological efficiency as adaptive behavior among Paleolithic hunter-gatherers : evidence from La-Côte, Caminade Est, and Le Flageolet I, France / Stephen Cole; title: Trash : the structure of Great Basin paleoarchaic debitage assemblages in western North America / Rebecca Kessler, Charlotte Beck, and George Jones; title: Reconstructing landscape use and mobility in the Namibian early stone age using operations analysis / Grant McCall; title: Changing the face of the earth : human behavior at Sede Ilan, an extensive lower-middle Paleolithic quarry site in Israel / Ran Barkai and Avi Gopher; title: Aurignacian core reduction and landscape utilization in the vicinity of la Ferrassie, France / Brooke Blades; title: Obazowa and Homcza : two paleolithic sites in the north Carpartians province of southern Poland / Pawel Valde-Nowak; title: Raw material economy and technological organization at Solvieux, France / Linda Grimm and Todd Koetje; title: Inferring aspects of Acheulean sociality and cognition from biface technology in the Hunsgi-Baichbal Valley of India / Ceri Shipton, Michael Petraglia, and K. Paddayya; title: Quina procurement and tool production / Peter Hiscock, Alain Turq, Jean-Philippe Faivre, and Laurence Bouguignon; title: The impact of lithic raw material quality and post-depositional processes on cultural/chronological classification : the Hungarian Szeletian case / Brian Adams; title: Raw material durability, function, and retouch in the upper Paleolithic of the Transbaikal Region / Karisa Terry, William Andrefsky, and Mikhail Konstantinov; title: Clovis and Dalton : unbounded and bounded systems in the midcontinent of North America / Brad Koldehoff and Thomas Loebel.