03118nam a22002297a 4500 20180831141717.0 180831b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781107026469 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 ;112641 ;22/08/2018 930.1 GOO Nathan Goodale ; William Andrefsky, Jr. Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory /Nathan Goodale New York, NY : Cambridge University Press , 2015. xix,297 Pages ;26 cm. 7220 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 / Michael Shott -- 4. Innovation and natural selection in Paleoindian projectile points from the American Southwest / Todd L. VanPool, Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman -- Part III. Applications of Behavioral Ecology to Lithic Studies -- 5. A case of extinction in Paleoindian archaeology / Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones -- 6. The North China Nanolithic / Robert L. Bettinger, Christopher Morgan and Loukas Barton -- 7. When to retouch, haft, or discard? Modeling optimal use/maintenance schedules in lithic tool use / Chris Clarkson, Michael Haslam and Clair Harris -- 8. Procurement costs and tool performance requirements : determining constraints on lithic toolstone selection in Baja California Sur / Jennifer Ferris -- 9. A model of lithic raw material procurement / Raven Garvey -- 10. Artifacts as patches : the marginal value theorem and stone tool life histories / Steven L. Kuhn and D. Shane Miller -- 11. Signals in stone : exploring the role of social information exchange, conspicuous consumption, and costly signaling theory in lithic analysis / Colin P. Quinn -- Part IV. Cultural Transmission and Morphology -- 12. An analysis of stylistic variability of stemmed obsidian tools (mata'a) on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) / Carl P. Lipo, Terry L. Hunt and Brooke Hundtoft -- 13. Cultural transmission and the production of material goods : evolutionary pattern through measuring morphology / Nathan Goodale, William Andrefsky, Jr, Curtis Osterhoudt, Lara Cueni and Ian Kuijt -- 14. What Steward got right : technology, work organization, and cultural evolution / Nathan E. Stevens -- 15. Evolution of the slate tool industry at Bridge River, British Columbia / Anna M. Prentiss, Nathan Goodale, Lucille E. Harris and Nicole Crossland. This collection of essays combines different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. History Social archaeology Stone implements--Analysis William Andrefsky, Jr. BOOK 50102 50102 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2018-08-31 7220.00 0 930.1 GOO 25570 2018-08-31 00:00:00 2018-08-31 BOOK