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Summary
Summary
Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene occupations in North American and Australia. The Early Paleolithic in India and the Near East, the Middle Paleolithic in Europe, and the Late Paleolithic in Europe and eastern Asia are also considered.
The authors include established researchers who provide important synthetic statements updated with new information. Recent data are reported, often by younger scholars who are becoming respected members of the international research community. The authors represent research traditions from nine countries and therefore provide insight into the scholarly present as well as the Paleolithic past. Attempts are frequently made to relate lithic procurement and utilization to the organization of societies and even broader concerns of hominin behaviour. The volume re-evaluates existing interpretations in some instances by updating previous work of the authors and offers provocative new interpretations that at times call into question some basic assumptions of the Paleolithic.
This book will be invaluable reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and anthropology.
Author Notes
Brian Adams is currently Assistant Director of the Public Service Archeology Architecture Program in the Anthropology Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include lithic analysis, microwear analysis of lithic artifacts, hunter-gatherer adaptations, and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe. He has conducted research at Paleolithic sites in Central Europe and Egypt, as well as prehistoric and early historic sites in the Midwest USA.
Brooke S. Blades is currently an archeologist with A.D. Marble Company an environmental consulting firm in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. He has conducted archeological research and excavations in various temporal and geographic contexts in eastern North America and in Western Europe. This research has focused in part on analyses of lithic materials and the challenges inherent in relating lithic economy to fundamental concerns of human mobility and social organization. His Paleolithic research in Western Europe has been generously supported by the American Philosophical Society, the International Relations and Exchanges Board (IREX), the National Science Foundation, and New York University.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors | p. vii |
Introduction: Lithics, Landscapes and Societies | p. ix |
Part I Regional Landscape Perspectives | p. 1 |
1 Raw Materials and Techno-Economic Behaviors at Oldowan and Acheulean Sites in the West Turkana Region, Kenya | p. 3 |
2 Patterns of Lithic Material Procurement and Transformation During the Middle Paleolithic in Western Europe | p. 15 |
3 Revisiting European Upper Paleolithic Raw Material Transfers: The Demise of the Cultural Ecological Paradigm? | p. 25 |
4 Sourcing Raw Materials for Chipped Stone Artifacts: The State-of-the-Art in Hungary and the Carpathian Basin | p. 47 |
5 Upper Paleolithic Toolstone Procurement and Selection Across Beringia | p. 54 |
6 Reduction, Recycling, and Raw Material Procurement in Western Arnhem Land, Australia | p. 78 |
Part II Technological and Assemblage Variability | p. 95 |
7 Paleolithic Exploitation of Rounded and Sub-Angular Quartzites in the Indian Subcontinent | p. 97 |
8 Filling the Void: Lithic Raw Material Utilization During the Hungarian Gravettian | p. 116 |
9 Technological Efficiency as an Adaptive Behavior Among Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers: Evidence from La-C&ohat;te, Caminade Est, and Le Flageolet I, France | p. 127 |
10 Trash: The Structure of Great Basin Paleoarchaic Debitage Assemblages in Western North America | p. 144 |
Part III Micro-Landscape Perspectives | p. 161 |
11 Reconstructing Landscape Use and Mobility in the Namibian Early Stone Age Using | p. 163 |
12 Changing the Face of the Earth: Human Behavior at Sede Ilan, an Extensive Lower-Middle Paleolithic Quarry Site in Israel | p. 174 |
13 Aurignacian Core Reduction and Landscape Utilization at La Ferrassie, France | p. 186 |
14 Oblazowa and Hlomcza: Two Paleolithic Sites in the North Carparthians Province of Southern Poland | p. 196 |
15 Raw Material Economy and Technological Organization at Solvieux, France | p. 208 |
Part IV Hominid Cognition, Adaptation, and Cultural Chronology | p. 217 |
16 Inferring Aspects of Acheulean Sociality and Cognition from Lithic Technology | p. 219 |
17 Quina Procurement and Tool Production | p. 232 |
18 The Impact of Lithic Raw Material Quality and Post-Depositional Processes on Cultural/Chronological Classification: The Hungarian Szeletian Case | p. 247 |
19 Raw Material Durability, Function, and Retouch in the Upper Paleolithic of the Transbaikal Region, Siberia | p. 256 |
20 Clovis and Dalton: Unbounded and Bounded Systems in the Midcontinent of North America | p. 270 |
Index | p. 289 |