New perspectives on old stones
Subtitle: analytical approaches to Paleolithic technologies
By: Stephen J. Lycett, Parth R. Chauhan, editors
Contributors: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781441968609; 9781441968616
Subjects: Prehistoric Tools; Methodology; Stone implements; Paleolithic period; Archaeology
Notes: Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2008 [73rd annual] meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Vancouver. Cf. p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Analytical approaches to Palaeolithic technologies : an introduction / Stephen J. Lycett and Parth R. Chauhan; title: A geometric morphometric assessment of plan shape in bone and stone Acheulean bifaces from the middle Pleistocene site of Castel di Guido, Latium, Italy / August G. Costa; title: Regional diversity within the core technology of the Howiesons Poort techno-complex / Chris Clarkson; title: Questioning the link between stone tool standardization and behavioral modernity / Gilliane F. Monnier and Kieran P. McNulty; title: The quantitative analysis of mobility : ecological techniques and archaeological extensions / Matt Grove; title: Metrical variability between South Asian handaxe assemblages : preliminary observations / Parth R. Chauhan; title: Quantifying variation in landscape-scale behaviors : the Oldowan from Koobi Fora / David R. Braun ... [et al.]; title: The mathematics of chaînes opératoires / P. Jeffrey Brantingham; title: Cultural transmission, genetic models, and lithic variability : integrative analytical approaches / Stephen J. Lycett; title: Comparing stone tool resharpening trajectories with the aid of elliptical Fourier analysis / Radu Ioviță; title: An assessment of the impact of resharpening on Paleoindian projectile point blade shape using geometric morphometric techniques / Briggs Buchanan and Mark Collard; title: Stone-tool demography : reduction distributions in North American Paleoindian tools / Michael J. Shott; title: The future of lithic analysis in Palaeolithic archaeology : a view from the Old World / John A.J. Gowlett; title: The future of Palaeolithic studies : a view from the New World / Michael J. O'Brien.