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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-- Part I. Lithic Technological Systems And Evolutionary Theory -- 1. Interpreting Lithic Technology Under The Evolutionary Tent / William Andrefsky, Jr And Nathan Goodale -- Part Ii. Culture History And Phylogenetic Evolution -- 2. Graphing Evolutionary Pattern In Stone Tools To Reveal Evolutionary Process / R. Lee Lyman -- 3. Theory In Archaeology : Morphometric Approaches To The Study Of Fluted Points

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Author

Dr Nathan Goodale, Dr William Andrefsky Jr

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139207775

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Archaeology