TY - BOOK AU - William Andrefsky, Jr. AU - William Andrefsky, Jr. TI - Lithic technology : : measures of production, use, and curation SN - 9781107646636 U1 - 930.1028 AND PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge ; New York PB - : Cambridge University Press KW - History KW - Stone implements--Analysis KW - Tools, Prehistoric--Analysis N1 - An introduction to stone tool life history and technological organization / William Andrefsky, Jr.-- Lithic reduction, its measurement and implications: comments on the volume / Michael J. Shott and Margaret C. Nelson -- Comparing and synthesizing unifacial stone tool reduction indices / Metin I. Eren and Mary E. Prendergast -- Unpacking production, resharpening and hammer type / Jennifer Keeling Wilson and Willian Andrefsky, Jr. -- The construction of morphological diversity: a study of mousterian implement retouching at Combe Grenal / Peter Hiscock and Chris Clarkson -- Reduction and retouch as independent measures of intensity / Brook Blades -- Stone tool perforating and retouch intensity: a neolithic case study / Colin Patrick Quinn [and others] -- Exploring the dart and arrow dilemma: retouch indices as functional determinants / Cheryl Harper and William Andrefsky, Jr. -- Projectile point provisioning strategies and human land-use William Andrefsky, Jr. -- The role of lithic raw material availability and quality in determining tool kit size, tool function, and degree of retouch: a case study from skink rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia / Douglas H. MacDonald -- Raw material and retouched flakes / Andrew P. Bradbury, Philip J. Carr and D. Randall Cooper -- Lithic technological organization in an evolutionary framework: examples from North America's Pacific Northwest region / Anna M. Prentiss and David S. Clarke -- Changing reduction intensity, settlement and subsistence in Wardaman Country, Northern Australia / Chris Clarkson -- Lithic core reduction techniques: a model for predicting expected diversity / Nathan B. Goodale [and others] N2 - This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary processes ER -