Format:
xix, 297 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9781107026469
Content:
"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"--
Note:
"This volume is an outgrowth of a symposium organized for the 74th Annual Society for American Archaeology meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, titled Evolutionary Approaches to Understanding Stone Technologies as a Byproduct of Human Behavior" (Impressum)
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Part I. Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory1. Interpreting lithic technology under the evolutionary tent
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Part II. Culture History and Phylogenetic Evolution ; 2. Graphing evolutionary pattern in stone tools to reveal evolutionary process
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3. Theory in archaeology : morphometric approaches to the study of fluted points
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4. Innovation and natural selection in Paleoindian projectile points from the American Southwest
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Part III. Applications of Behavioral Ecology to Lithic Studies ; 5. A case of extinction in Paleoindian archaeology
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6. The North China Nanolithic
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7. When to retouch, haft, or discard? Modeling optimal use/maintenance schedules in lithic tool use
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8. Procurement costs and tool performance requirements : determining constraints on lithic toolstone selection in Baja California Sur
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9. A model of lithic raw material procurement
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10. Artifacts as patches : the marginal value theorem and stone tool life histories
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11. Signals in stone : exploring the role of social information exchange, conspicuous consumption, and costly signaling theory in lithic analysis
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Part IV. Cultural Transmission and Morphology ; 12. An analysis of stylistic variability of stemmed obsidian tools (mata'a) on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
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13. Cultural transmission and the production of material goods : evolutionary pattern through measuring morphology
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14. What Steward got right : technology, work organization, and cultural evolution
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15. Evolution of the slate tool industry at Bridge River, British Columbia
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015 ISBN 1316203735
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316203736
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Biology
Keywords:
Steingerät
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Mensch
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Evolution
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Kulturwandel
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Anthropologie
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Steinzeug
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Werkzeug
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Evolutionstheorie
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