Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation {Repost}
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521888271 | edition 2008 | PDF | 340 pages | 12 MB
The life history of stone tools is intimately liked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints, and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes, and retouch measurement.