Folsom Lithic Technology
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Author | : Daniel S. Amick |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The Folsom lithic technology is found among the hunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene grasslands of west-central North America. The eleven papers in this volume focus on identifying patterning within the lithic assemblages, detecting structure and variation and providing insights into the organisation of the technology.
Author | : Todd Alexander Surovell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John E Clarke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315428318 |
This volume is an extensive collection of chapters discussing Folsom artifacts and sites, as well as innovative experiments undertaken to understand Folsom technology and lifeways. Public and private collections of Folsom artifacts were brought together with professional and amateur lithic analysts and knappers in an attempt to determine how the ancient stone tools were made and used. In addition, Folsom Technology and Lifeways summarizes interaction among knappers and analysts, and the attempts to replicate specific artifact types represented. It is a unique volume in that it examines the variation present in technology and behavior across a wide range of Folsom localities.
Author | : Anthony T. Boldurian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : Andrew N. Zink |
Publisher | : ProQuest |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9780549216735 |
Author | : Todd A. Surovell |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816507384 |
Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth's habitable landmass in doing so. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experiments, engineering, and "common sense" to explain variability in archaeological lithic assemblages. Because the fundamental processes of making, using, and discarding stone tools are, at root, exercises in problem solving, Todd Surovell asks what conditions favor certain technological solutions. Whether asking if a biface should be made thick or thin or if a flake should be saved or discarded, Surovell seeks answers that extend beyond a case-by-case analysis. One avenue for addressing these questions theoretically is formal mathematical modeling. Here Surovell constructs a series of models designed to link environmental variability to human decision making as it pertains to lithic technology. To test the models, Surovell uses data from the analysis of more than 40,000 artifacts from five Rocky Mountain and Northern Plains Folsom and Goshen complex archaeological sites dating to the Younger Dryas stadial (ca. 12,600-11,500 years BP). The primary result is the production of powerful new analytical tools useful to the interpretation of archaeological assemblages. Surovell's goal is to promote modeling and explore the general issues governing technological decisions. In this light, his models can be applied to any context in which stone tools are made and used.
Author | : Brian Patrick Kooyman |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780826323330 |
Covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis.
Author | : Todd A. Surovell |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816599521 |
Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth's habitable landmass in doing so. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experiments, engineering, and "common sense" to explain variability in archaeological lithic assemblages. Because the fundamental processes of making, using, and discarding stone tools are, at root, exercises in problem solving, Todd Surovell asks what conditions favor certain technological solutions. Whether asking if a biface should be made thick or thin or if a flake should be saved or discarded, Surovell seeks answers that extend beyond a case-by-case analysis. One avenue for addressing these questions theoretically is formal mathematical modeling. Here Surovell constructs a series of models designed to link environmental variability to human decision making as it pertains to lithic technology. To test the models, Surovell uses data from the analysis of more than 40,000 artifacts from five Rocky Mountain and Northern Plains Folsom and Goshen complex archaeological sites dating to the Younger Dryas stadial (ca. 12,600-11,500 years BP). The primary result is the production of powerful new analytical tools useful to the interpretation of archaeological assemblages. Surovell's goal is to promote modeling and explore the general issues governing technological decisions. In this light, his models can be applied to any context in which stone tools are made and used.
Author | : Erick Robinson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-11-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319644076 |
The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches. As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.
Author | : Daniel S. Amick |
Publisher | : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : House & Home |
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