Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology

by Todd A. Surovell

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816507384
• ISBN13: 9780816507382
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"