Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781107026469
Subjects: Stone implements; Tools, prehistoric; Human evolution; Social archaeology; Human behavior; Human ecology
Description: "Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, risk management, macroevolution, dual inheritance theory, cladistics, central place foraging, costly signaling, selection, drift, and various applications of evolutionary ecology"--